Bologna, 4 December 2025 – “I had heard about secondary victimization. Now I understand the meaning. It’s a sense of abandonment e di frustration: but I still trust that he can achieve justice”.
Acquitted because it was not a crime
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These are the words, full of bitterness and despair, of the woman who had reported his stalkerafter the man, in recent days, was acquitted. And not for not having committed the crime. But why the fact does not constitute a crime. Many in the Chamber were left speechless during the pronouncement of the first degree sentence (judge Gilda Del Borrello), which acquitted the accused, a 67 year old from Bologna.
Years of persecution
The man had had a romantic relationship with the offended party – a 66-year-old, also from Bologna. Then she stopped the story and the man started to persecute her in every way with threats and verbal attacks, stalking and stalking, sending notes, anonymous phone calls and car chases. Yes it was too stationed under his partner’s house of her from that period.
Not only that. I had called my dad of the offended party – an elderly man – to tell him that his daughter was a woman of easy virtue and had also called her ex-boyfriend to reveal the relationships the woman had.
Intimate videos released
Finally, the 67-year-old was also accused of revenge porn for making lots of videos and photos of the woman in the moments of their intimate relationships and for then spreading them. Prosecutor Elena Caruso had asked for eight months, considering the generic ones. Tuesday, the sentence that acquitted the accused.
Anxiety and fear for one’s safety
Second the accusation, the accused, assisted by the lawyer Pier Giorgio Bovoli, caused the woman, between 2020 and 2021, “a persistent state of anxiety and fear” and “a well-founded fear for your own safety such as to force her to change her lifestyle habits” to the point that she, “for fear of being followed and controlled”, had to “be accompanied or escorted” in her movements.
The lawyer: appeal so that no one is entitled to persecute
“The only interpretation behind this device is that the man didn’t realize of the typical repercussions on the offended person – explains the lawyer Gabriele Bordoni, who assists the woman –. As a defender, I note the decision that certainly I will challenge considering it absolutely unacceptable. I am confident that the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the General Prosecutor’s Office will also join the appeal, so as not to convey a message that legitimate people to persecute their partner and then defend themselves by saying that they didn’t realize what the consequences of their actions were.”