“I’ll put on my balaclava and shoot you.” This is the shocking sentence uttered by a 60-year-old man from Aprilia towards the single judge of the Latina court Clara Trapuzzano, a 34-year-old Calabrian originally from Lamezia Terme, who had just condemned him in a trial in which the man had to answer for resistance to a public official for threatening a doctor in the emergency room of the Santa Maria Goretti hospital. As several local newspapers report, when the judge read the sentence, sentencing the sixty-year-old to a sentence of one year and four months, the man first applauded ironically and then, with a sudden move, approached the bench, pronouncing the threat. Immediately accompanied outside by his lawyer and the Carabinieri of the surveillance service, after what happened the case was entrusted to the Carabinieri of the Latina Company. The magistrate also left the judicial office escorted by the military.
Anm Lazio: «We express deep concern»
«The Executive Board of the ANM Lazio expresses its deep concern for the attack of which its colleague Chiara Trapuzzano, judge of the Court of Latina, was the victim at the end of a criminal hearing in the early afternoon of March 26». This is what we read in a note. For the magistrates’ association «this is yet another episode that highlights the alarming and more current issue than ever of the individual safety of the individual magistrate and the collective safety within the judicial offices. In fact, about a month has passed since the attack suffered by the colleague of the Civil Court of Rome and perhaps it is not even entirely coincidental that similar acts are always carried out against young women, as manifestations of a social reality distorted compared to the judicial reality , who views the female component of the judiciary with annoyance.” These behaviors «are based on the constant process of devaluation of the judicial function which is certainly not helped by the recent announcement to subject individual aspiring magistrates to a psychological evaluation. All our solidarity goes to my colleague Trapuzzano, with the hope that the issue of safety in courthouses, which must be ensured for all users of the service, becomes a central issue that can no longer be avoided”, concludes the note.
