A endless nightmare outside and inside the house, which he catapulted her in a everyday life full of terror, prostration And enslavement Between insults, threats And beating by the live-in partner That he wanted to control their life in a spasmodic way.
It’s what, between September 2018 And August 2020was forced to live one 45 year old woman from Ferrara at the hands of a 46 year old man of Italian nationalityto which yesterday (Thursday 9 May) judge Alessandra Martinelli of the Ferrara court has given a three-year sentence on charges of mistreatment.
That of man, according to what was claimed during his speech by Sara Brunolegal who assisted the womanwas “a morbid jealousy“. Era “obsessed” to such an extent that require her to do her shopping within a certain time maximumcheck her purse, phone and receipts because he was suspicious that she might be having another relationship.
“The deprived of associating with men and women or just to chat” added the lawyer, who also highlighted how he was “substantially maintained” from her and “he often asked her for money” and “if she didn’t find it it was better for her not to come home because he put his hands on her“.
Everything, according to the reconstruction of the Ferrara Prosecutor’s Office, began on 15 September 2018, when the State Police agents rescued the very frightened woman due to an argument with the man, who he had heavily insulted and pushed herto the point of forcing her to spend the night at her mother’s house: she is there first warning of what would happen in the following months.
In fact, two months later, on 25 December, the police intervened again at the request of a man, who had called them saying he had given assistance to a woman in difficulty. Once they arrived on site, the woman she reports having been jerked around the neck by her partnerThat he would also have stolen her phonecausing her to suffer secondary head and facial trauma.
The subject of the discussion, according to what the victim explained in the courtroom during the previous hearings, was the presence of her mother at the lunch Christmas. But the situation was degenerate and he had attacked her, pulling her hair, shaking her head And grabbing her by the neckin fact, forcing her to be referred to the emergency room.
Man’s violent attitudes they don’t even subside with the new year. It is August 2, 2019, when the police intervene for a fight in the streetalerted by the accused himself who, despite the presence of the officersoffends and threatens the woman before their eyes.
“If you go out I’ll kill you”, “I’ll cut your head off“, “I’ll break your face”, “you’re dead as soon as you leave the house tomorrow morning”, “As soon as the police leave I’ll kill you” he tells her in those moments, ignoring the policemen’s invitation to calm down. Initially, the men from her 113 convince him to move away from her but, after an hour, he shows up again in her house, where he is her guest, and starts threatening her again.
He is thus taken to the police station and reported in a state of freedom for threats.
Six days later, history repeats itself again. State Police operators they reach the victim’s house and find the two in the street, intent on arguing over his attacks of jealousy, suspicious because – according to him – she usually went away at night.
It’s always there jealousy involved even a few weeks later. According to what has been reconstructed, during the evening of August 20th, the man sees some joking photos of her with a boy on the 45-year-old’s cell phone and starts promising both of them to come to a bad endscreaming “I’ll kill you”, “I mix your bones“, “I’ll cut your head off”.
The following day, the August 21, 2019the argument resumes while the two remain aloneafter her mother leaves the house. He kicks her and knocks her to the ground and then steals her cell phonebefore walking away.
Exactly one year later, on August 22, 2020eight days before the complaint sportthe woman asks even help and protection to his neighborafter an argument without physical violence, which however had frightened her for the tenor of the insults and threats.
“If you leave I’ll break your head” And “you are dead meat” he tells her, jealous of the old lady’s son resident in a town in the province to which you, since March of that year, he had started acting as a carer, receiving hospitality in exchange to sleep there all weekfrom Monday to Saturday, thus avoiding having to commute between home and work.
He locks her in the house at the end of a discussion in which the woman lets him know that she would go away and leave him alone. But she, taking advantage of him having to go to the bathroom, succeeds to leave the apartment and to ask your neighbor for help.
In the courtroom, the gentleman who had helped her asking for intervention of the police, he said that, once he discovered that the woman had found shelter in his apartmentthe man had started threatening both of themkicking and punching the door.
After that episode, not without difficulty, the 45-year-old manages to get on the bus and go to the house of the woman for whom she was a carer. From that moment, the two they are no longer seen for one year. In fact, she continues to work from the old woman until October 2021when the latter is admitted to a facility, but also in those months continues to receive pressure anyway of the man via the Messenger app and numerous calls to his mobile phone.
In October 2021, without a safe place to stay, he finds himself like this forced to return home Together at his ‘executioner‘ who, a year later, in November 2022, by carrying out disruptive actions through denigrating comments on social networks, managed to get her fired from the retirement home where she had been hired and where, in the meantime, she had found ‘room and board’.
She returned to live with the man again for a few daysthe story ends only when, with an excuse, he manages to ask his tormentor permission to leave and takes refuge in a bed&breakfast found by the Women’s Justice Centrewhere it remains for twenty days, before go and live with his motherwith whom he still lives today.
