The case is striking and provokes a strong reaction from the Government, with the Minister of Justice Carlo Nordio sending inspectors and the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni attacking the sentence: the 42-year-old Bangladeshi employee of a minimarket in Madonna di Campagna, on the outskirts of Turin, stopped by the police accused of raping a 13-year-old girl who entered the store to buy a snack for her brothers, arrested and then released by the judge after just two nights in jail because “he proved to be cooperative”.
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Abuses caught by internal cameras
The news, revealed in the morning press, spreads on social media, causing anger and dismay. Also because the violence – reported by the 13-year-old who immediately called her mother and waited on the sidewalk for a friend to arrive – was recorded by the cameras, which captured another abuse, against an adult woman, committed by the man just 40 minutes earlier.
For the judge, the man “showed remorse”
Yet, after only two nights in a cell at the Lorusso and Cutugno prison, the minimarket employee was released. Order of the judge, according to whom he “showed remorse,” handed over the internal store camera footage to the officers himself and during the validation hearing he said he was “sorry”: “I made a mistake, this is the first time it has happened to me.” According to the judge, the “trauma of the arrest” could represent a sufficient deterrent.
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The protests
The wave of outrage is widespread: women protest first and foremost, against the blatant (and unfortunately frequent) underestimation of violence by the judge. In front of the Turin police headquarters, a demonstration takes place with the slogan “let’s close the pedomarket” promoted by representatives of Fdi, led by the deputy group leader in the Chamber, Augusta Montaruli, and the vice president of the Piedmont Region, Maurizio Marrone, who denounce as “unacceptable” the fact that the man can return to work as if nothing had happened.
Nordio’s move
Nordio chooses to send inspectors to the Turin court to carry out checks, earning the praise of the Lega deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini who takes the opportunity to relaunch the proposal for chemical castration. “I note that the judge’s decision falls within the autonomy and independence of the judiciary, on which I cannot and must not interfere,” Nordio clarifies. “Nevertheless, given the exceptional nature of the case and the social alarm caused, I have ordered the sending of inspectors to acquire any useful evaluation.”
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