No make-up, hairdresser or male friends: subjected to Koranic law, her husband condemned

A young Moroccan man was sentenced to 3 years and 4 months for mistreatment who, over the years of cohabitation, forced his wife to «follow all the dictates of the Koranic religion, including Ramadan and prayers addressed to Mecca several times a day ».

According to the accusations of prosecutor Nicoletta Mari, who investigated after the complaint from the girl originally from Villaputzu, the man would have exercised a control over her ex that she defined as almost maniacal, given that he would have prevented her "from wearing "elegant" clothes and taking care of herself in physical appearance", to buy her own clothes, as well as to "go to the hairdresser or beautician".

For years the young woman, who took part in a civil action with the lawyer Emanuele Pizzoccheri, was allegedly harassed due to her ex-husband's jealousy and fundamentalist ideas, as she was "not allowed to wear make-up and much less have acquaintances outside the family unit". familiar to the man, that is, staying at work to talk to colleagues".

The accused was defended by the lawyer Marco Spanu. Yesterday at the end of the abbreviated trial the Court judge sentenced him to 3 years and 4 months, two months less than prosecutor Mari's request.