Writer on trial in Italy pleads freedom of expression An Italian writer sent to trial for saying an environmentally controversial train link should be "sabotaged" plans to make freedom of expression the centre of his defence. Erri De Luca is due in court in Turin on Wednesday to answer a charge of incitement to commit a criminal act over 2013 interviews in which he was quoted as saying a proposed new link through the Alps "should be sabotaged" and that he thought "it is just to sabotage it." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES.