His wife had left him due to the constant attacks but he continued to harass her, even threatening to kill her and tear her to pieces, telling her: “If you are not mine you will not belong to anyone else”. For this reason, the Police, at the request of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, arrested a 50-year-old man in Catania, against whom the officers carried out a precautionary custody order in prison issued by the investigating judge for family mistreatment and persecutory acts. The man was locked up in the Piazza Lanza prison.
The 50-year-old father of three young children, possessive towards his wife, would have addressed insults to her, physically attacking her with kicks and punches even in front of the children, destroying the household furnishings on several occasions. Her attacks had not stopped even during the period in which the woman was expecting her last child, forcing her to live in a climate of total oppression, physical and psychological violence culminating in the choice to leave her husband. Despite the end of the relationship, the man continued to continuously contact his ex-wife with hundreds of messages, phone calls and video calls to check on her because he insisted that she not associate with other people.
