Giuseppe Amato: «The investigations could not be concluded earlier because some people to hear were on vacation». The 57-year-old’s family: “You don’t pay just one person”
Bouquets of flowers and cards fill the portico of number 42 in via dell’Arcoveggio, where Alessandra Matteuzzi, A 57-year-old Bolognese known by all as ‘Sandra’, lived and lost her life. She still misses her bench, which was removed by the police immediately after the fact of her, on which the woman was massacred, beaten and hammered mercilessly by her. former partner, Giovanni Padovani, a 27-year-old footballer originally from Senigallia (Ancona). Sandra was returning home, he was on the phone with his sisterbut he didn’t have time to cross the door.
The woman tried to defend herself in July, denouncing the young footballer for stalking. But he didn’t help protect her. The chief prosecutor of Bologna, Giuseppe Amato, today underlines that «in this affair we cannot speak of bad justice. The complaint was accepted at the end of July, on 1 August it was immediately registered and the investigations that could not be concluded before 29 August were immediately activated, because some people to be heard were on vacation. We have done what we could do ». The Minister of Justice Cartabia asked the Inspectorate offices to “urgently carry out the necessary preliminary investigations, formulating, on the outcome, evaluations and proposals”.
“From the victim’s complaint – explains the prosecutor – no concrete risk situations of violence emerged, it was the typical conduct of harassing stalkerism”. On the effectiveness of a more massive use of the electronic bracelet, in case there are the extremes to apply it, Amato explains: “The real problem it poses is that of costs because already today those electronic bracelets that we may have to use for some crimes, when then in concrete the go to request are not found. We need the norm but also the economic instruments that make the norm work ».
The family: “You don’t pay just one person”
The victim’s family does not hide the dismay: «My aunt was a person of heart and did not deserve all this, I hope this episode will change things. I expect him to rot in jail, but not to pay just one person, otherwise it will happen again ”, are the words of Alessandra’s nephew, Matteo Perini. “What happened was by no means a bolt from the blue because there had been previous signs, so much so that there had been a complaint. The problem lies in the legal flaws, ”adds Alessandra’s cousin, the Modena lawyer Sonia Bertolini. “If a complaint is filed for persecutory acts – he continues – and at the same time there is no protection, the femicides will continue”.
Condolence on social media
There are dozens of messages that Internet users are posting on Facebook and Instagram on Alessandra’s profiles. “Damn the men who rage with unprecedented ferocity on defenseless women, cursed state that does not swiftly condemn the episodes of stalking before they lead to tragic and irrecoverable events”, she reads in one of the posts. The woman on her profiles always appears sunny, fashionable, in love with life. “Alessandra now you are an angel watching over your family,” she still reads on her Facebook wall, while on Instagram the account has sadly increased its followers, with hundreds of likes and messages of condolence.
On the other hand, on the pages of the 27-year-old footballer who the other night lurked under his ex’s house, waiting for her with a hammer, there are many insults and condemnations after what happened. On Facebook, comments are blocked for those who have not made a virtual friendship with him, while on Instagram, full of photos narrating a life made up of fashionable clothes, allegedly expensive watches, aperitifs and football kicks, unrepeatable phrases and words are wasted. . «You have not only ruined his life of him but above all yours. You had a good life ahead. How sad ”, writes a girl, one of the few comments that can be reported, about a tragedy, yet another, which sees a woman as the victim.
Anti-violence centers Emilia-Romagna: do not underestimate stalking
“The assessment of risk and danger is a fundamental part of the work of anti-violence centers, so we are aware of how difficult it is to assess the danger of violence such as stalking, but Alessandra Matteuzzi’s femicide reminds us of the need not to underestimate this violence , which denotes the control of the victim’s life and the refusal of separation ». You wrote, in a note released in these hours, the Coordination of the anti-violence centers of Emilia-Romagna, following the femicide of the 57-year-old. “Femicide is the most extreme consequence of violence against women and is an expression of the desire to control a woman’s life, to the point of wanting to decree her death when this life escapes the control of the violent man – continues the note -. We are facing the limits of the legal and institutional tools we have in the fight against gender-based violence, even more so if not accompanied by a deep knowledge of the phenomenon: Alessandra was killed by a man who had reported and to which measures of safety”.
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