Thus, at first glance, it seems that the world goes on the contrary, that it is not true that we are evolving, that it is not true that going into the square and making noise and the red benches and the special days and concerts and processions and essays and lighting counter -seats dozens of pages, are disagreed the hoped for effect.
Because, if it is true as it is true that to change mentality and Modus Vivendiinculcating the seed of respect and eliminating the carcinogenic one of the patriarchate, it takes decades, it is also true that – damn – we are one step away from 2026 and the light is not yet seen.
A few hours after the advances that the press made on the sentence with which the Turin Court acquitted Lucia’s ex -husband from the accusation of mistreatment and sentenced him for personal injuries to 1 year and 6 months, with conditional suspension, the choir is unanimous: but did the judge really said this here?
That “it must be understood“? That she had”flaking a wedding“”for his personal initiative“? So, a person” fool “a wedding and is located the same evening with a prognosis in the hospital 40 days, 21 titanium plates in the face and a serious injury to an optical nerve.
What had happened, the sentence
On July 28, 2022 Lucia Regna was hit by a punch in the face, the head slammed against a marble plan and, follow, kicks in the face. All seasoned with heavy insults “You are a …”, “Don’t wave a …”. An attack that left her those life signs and the need for psychological support.
Now, we don’t want and we cannot investigate the reason (but sufficient) who pushed the man to an unprecedented brutal reaction, but the judges did and what came out are real goodies.
According to the reasons of the judge, the husband was pushed by a “feeling” in which “One of the reading keys of what happened on the evening of the violent episode should be sought“For the magistrate, the woman is responsible for having flawed the marriage” permanently “, the husband accused him of having an extra marital relationship that has compromised theirs and, he still reads in the sentence, has”communicated the separation in a brutal way“(It seems via WhatsApp).
Also the insults according to the court are “Phrases that must be fallen in their specific context, the bitterness for the dissolution of the domestic community“. The accused according to the judge had a”outburst“Because he felt”victim of a wrong“.
In addition, according to the sentence, that would have been an isolated episode, never preceded by something similar previously. On the contrary: at the trial, the victim “had nothing to say to the court regarding any mistreatment received by her husband until the year 2021”, when she decided to leave the consort. From that moment on, continuous quarrels would have been born which, however, according to the judge, do not constitute mistreatment as “simple domestic discussions”, even if seasoned with scurrilic language and insults.
When a sentence defines seven minutes of violence “an understandable outburst” we are fruitful
The fact that an aggression of an inhuman and inadmissible brutality – which leaves permanent damage to the face and sight – is derubricated to “A single episode“It hurts not only to Lucia Regna, but to all the women who live with fear every day. Because the sentence that absolves from the accusation of mistreatment and talks about”outburst“He does not just establish a penalty: he risks sending a devastating message.
The use of expressions such as “it must be understood“,”bitterness for the dissolution of the marriage“Or“human“It sounds like a justification. And when physical violence – with its load of titanium plates, damaged nerves and broken life – is traced back to a sort of male emotional fragility, then the severity of the gesture is lost, suffocated under the rhetoric of” understanding “.
From a technical-legal point of view, of course, the distinction between “personal injuries” and “mistreatment” is fundamental: lawyers teach me that mistreatment must be proven as a repeated and systematic conduct. But on the human, social and cultural level, this ruling risks normalizing what is normal is not: the idea that a punch, if placed in the “context” of a finished marriage “because of who knows who”, can be explained in some way, understandable, even attenuated.
To underline the disproportion is the civil lawyer, Annalisa Baratto:
The vivisection and mortifies the offended person, while he is indulgent to the man who broke through the face to Lucia and made her lose her view from one eye. I am not surprised when women tell me they have lost the strength to report because they fear to end up on them,
Words that make tremble. Because we are not only talking about a coincidence, but of a cultural precedent: the fear that the complaint will turn into a boomerang, the feeling that pain is put in the background compared to the “reasons” of the attacker.
Whenever justice seems to minimize violence, the consequence is the same: a message to the victims that pushes them to silence. And this silence, in a country where dozens of women are killed in their homes, partners or former partners every year, it is a luxury that we cannot afford.
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