Overview

• Procurator Cesare Parodi confirmed the Turin prosecutor’s office has filed an appeal against the first‑instance verdict and its written motivations.
• The June ruling acquitted the defendant of maltrattamenti but convicted him of aggravated bodily injury, imposing a 1.5‑year sentence suspended with probation.
• In the motivations, Judge Paolo Gallo described the attack as an understandable “sfogo” tied to a dissolved marriage and wrote the defendant “va compreso,” with insults deemed contextual.
• Victim Lucia Regna, whose face was rebuilt with 21 titanium plates and who suffered a permanent ocular nerve injury, called the outcome a defeat that could deter reporting.
• The parliamentary femicide commission requested the case files, while the local bar association warned that media and political pressure threatens judicial independence.