One year and six months for domestic abuse to a businessman from the Alghero area. This is the sentence handed down yesterday in court in Sassari, by Judge Silvia Masala, against a man accused by his wife and daughter of beatings, insults, and threats. Behaviors that, in the indictment, converge in an episode in July 2017 when the defendant, suspicious of his wife's behavior and fearing betrayal, took her cell phone and threw it on the floor and then, according to the accusations, beat both her and the young woman. An alleged explosion of violence that led the rest of the family to take refuge in a room waiting for the police to arrive.
For the prosecutor Antonio Piras, who portrayed the defendant as a “father-master,” the violence occurred without external witnesses, and within a context where the man allegedly demanded that his children and wife act according to his wishes and indulge his life plan linked to the company for which he had become heavily indebted. And the presence of his daughter, who he did not consider up to the task, was a burden. “A woman is a ruin,” the civil party lawyer for the girl Tiziana Satta reports the alleged words of the defendant, “because she cannot continue the company.” Then insults, the cancellation of all autonomy, slaps and kicks to prevent her from leaving, up to an alleged attempted suicide.
The situation regarding the wife is, if possible, worse and this was reported by the civil lawyer for the lady, Costantino Biello, recounting how the accused , eight years ago, allegedly told her: «You are not getting out of here alive». A regime of subjugation, according to the lawyer, which was also expressed in sexual relations, imposed even against the will of the woman. Circumstances forcefully denied by the defense lawyer Vittorio Marrocu, who remarked that in the other trials relating to the family's affairs there was never any talk of sexual violence and underlining a series of contradictions on the part of the accusers. «If the father was such a monster», he declares, «why did the mother leave the other children with him?»
According to the lawyer, the gaps in the proceedings were filled with falsehoods that were brought to light in installments during the hearings. The judge ordered the conditional suspension of the sentence, and a provisional sum of 2,500 euros each for the injured parties .
