Rome, December 19, 2021 – Sometimes man has to “overcome that minimum of resistance that every woman, in the course of a stable and lasting relationship, tired of daily chores, tends to exercise when a husband tries a sexual approach “. With these reasons a pm of the Prosecutor of Benevento asked thefiling of a woman’s report of violence by her husband. The story, anticipated by the newspaper, immediately aroused controversy. They do discuss, in fact, the reasons of the prosecutor, for whom the alleged violent acts reported by the woman are considered “carnal facts which must be resized in their scope “, also because they were committed” in a phase of the marital relationship in which “she” seriously questioned the relationship, meditating on separation “.
For its part, the Prosecutor of Benevento, led by Aldo Policastro, immediately underlined in a note that the opposition to the filing presented by the woman “is under examination by the office“which” is absolutely foreign to the practice and guidelines of the whole office, any and all underestimation of the minimal constricting approach in interpersonal relationships between man and woman and, in general, in those involving freedom in general and sexual freedom in particular “. As evidence of this, the Prosecutor reported the commitment of the entire office to theme of gender-based violence with the establishment, since 2017, and the daily operation of the ‘Listening space for vulnerable victims and of gender-based violence’ and of the ‘Interinstitutional technical table’.
There was no lack of immediate reactions. The deputy from Italy Viva, Silvia Fregolent, for which “the reasons” are “frankly hallucinating”. “If the fact does not exist – added the parliamentarian – it must be clearly stated, while minimizing means not only offend the dignity of women but put your life at risk of people. It was found that many femicides, even one in seven, could be avoided if the complaints were taken seriously. Here we are faced with judgments by the prosecutor who bring the country back to the times of the honor killing ” Laura Ravetto, Head of the Equal Opportunities Department of the League, “to really combat the structural problem of a society, where man can perceive woman as an object and property and decide to annihilate her if that woman chooses to leave him, juridical preparation is not enough. culture of respect for a relentless fight against the culture of ‘if it was sought’ “.
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