“Inappropriate” and “absurd” the decision of the Senate Justice Commission to call Davide Stasi and Fabio Nestola for a hearing on various bills against gender and domestic violence, including that of the government. It is Valeria Valente, president of the Senate Femicide Commission, who raised the alarm on Wednesday with a post on her Facebook profile to protest against the choices made in the hearings on the package of measures to be adopted “to prevent the escalation of violence, which too it often becomes femicide “, as she herself says.
«In all likelihood, on the advice of the sadly known senator of the Lega Simone Pillon, – writes Valeria Valente – Davide Stasi and Fabio Nestola were also heard. It is a very inopportune, absurd decision. Parliament is in fact the place where different, very different opinions are also heard, and that is right. But in this case we are well beyond. With a woman killed almost every day in the last two weeks alone, it is already questionable that people who deny the phenomenon of gender-based violence have been audited, arguing that the theme is instead the false reports with which wives try to frame the husbands with whom they want to separate themselves by portraying them as the real victims of domestic violence but even more serious is the fact that, in the case of Stasi and Nestsola, we are faced with people who through their blogs and their social profiles praise violence and hatred against women and for this, in fact, they have been reported several times.
It has happened several times, they are two characters known for their unrepeatable insults and for the offenses against many women, including many parliamentarians and many representatives of associations and especially anti-violence centers. Giving them the floor in a public forum, precisely on the bills against gender violence, is really unacceptable. We will ask for explanations to the president of the HOSTELLARS Commission, because we consider this choice to be very serious and very dangerous for women ”.
To answer to the president of the femicide commission of the Senate is first of all the senator Simone Pillon of the League. “In parliament – he maintains – all the exponents of civil society are listened to and not just those who decide the Democratic Party. Neither Stasi nor Nestola have ever praised domestic violence. Both, however, legitimately spoke of the serious phenomenon of false reports of violence ”. And he adds that in his activity as a lawyer “I have unfortunately seen many abused women, but I have also seen many false and instrumental complaints. After all, the numbers speak for themselves: many complaints but few definitive convictions. For heaven’s sake, even one is too much, but those who, like you, say that the woman who denounces is always right, is wrong twice “, warns and invites Valeria Valente to” remove the lenses of ideology and look at reality “.
The next day, Donatella Conzatti, senator of Italia Viva, also intervenes, accusing “a part of the League – other than the one that works with us in the femicide commission – is carrying on a real battle against rights” and stresses that “it is not a coincidence if the measures concerning the rights of people, from the end of life to domestic violence to homophobia, remain imprisoned in the quicksand of the Senate Justice Commission where the League of Pillon and companions hinders every path of civilization by reversing the direction of march towards the Middle Ages”.
The answer is Andrea Ostellari, the president of the commission under accusation who first of all launches an invitation to Senator Conzatti. “Study the rules,” he tells her. It is not the committee chair who authorizes the names of the audits. “He simply collects the indications of groups” and asks her not to “confuse the names of those who have been called to the hearing and those of those who are, unfortunately, known in the news”.