Rome, Sept. 13 (LaPresse) – "It is a big step backward, and unfortunately it is not an isolated case." This is how the Minister for Family and Equal Opportunities Eugenia Roccella commented in an interview with La Stampa on the Turin verdict in the Lucia Regna case. "Arguments of this kind keep recurring in rulings, and they tell us that the cultural change we all ask for also concerns, and perhaps especially, the judiciary and those who have to enforce the laws. The new law on femicide will not have real effectiveness if those who apply it believe that the violent man 'must be understood,' and that insults and mistreatment are part of normal family dynamics," she added.
"I never enter into the merits of the judicial process of a case," she continued. "Certainly the language used and then translated into concepts in that ruling is a problem. Behind it is the idea that violence belongs to a normal relational and family dialectic. This is frankly intolerable. It is a wrong vision, largely outdated by time, but unfortunately it re-emerges in some rulings."
"The government is working a lot on the training of operators who come into contact with situations of violence in various ways. With particular attention to the judiciary, which obviously plays a crucial role," the minister continued. "In the new law, which introduces the autonomous crime of femicide, there is mandatory training for judicial operators. Moreover, we have prepared a white paper specifically aimed at training, which traces uniform definitions and accurate descriptions of the phenomena. Next week, this will be discussed at a meeting at the CSM (Superior Council of the Judiciary)."