Overview

• Deputy prosecutor Cesare Parodi said the office has lodged an appeal, challenging both the acquittal for maltrattamenti and the language used in the judgment.
• The June first-instance verdict imposed 18 months with a suspended sentence for aggravated injuries and excluded the continuous domestic-abuse charge, despite a 4.5-year request from prosecutor Barbara Badellino.
• The written reasons stated the attacker 'va compreso' and framed the violence within the dissolution of a decades-long relationship, contextualizing insults and threats.
• Victim Lucia Regna required 21 titanium plates to reconstruct her face and sustained permanent ocular nerve damage, and she criticized the decision as 'a defeat for all.'
• The parliamentary commission on femicide requested access to the case file, as the local bar association warned against media and political pressure on judicial independence.