Dino Keber "had been making a noose for himself with rope for some time, and every time my daughter left him, he would show it to her, manipulating her, saying he was going to kill himself." This is the story of Marinella Forner, mother of Tania Terrin, the woman who was killed by Keber, who then took his own life. "Twenty days ago," the woman said in an interview with Corriere del Veneto, "Dino asked me to meet. Maybe I should talk to him, I should listen to him. My daughter forbade me. He told me, 'Mom, don't even try to get close to him.' My daughter liked him because he was sweet. She couldn't get him out of her head. They even tried living together, but things didn't go well. Then came the first attack. He punched her, scratching her and damaging her eardrum. They separated, but Dino stayed away from her for a month at most, then he'd come back. She forgave him and started harassing her again. Text messages, phone calls, jealous scenes, phone taps, stalking. 'Look, I don't like the Taliban,' I told him once. And I told Tania: 'Look, sooner or later he'll pull out a knife.'

Forner then recalls reporting Keber "seven or eight times: three times by me, three times by her to the Carabinieri, and two or three times by her father, too. There was also a warning from the police commissioner. Tania had been convinced to report him after the events that occurred in April. It was Easter. He had convinced her to try again, things seemed to be going better, but then when Tania went to his house, Dino had tightened his grip around her neck so tightly that she lost consciousness . I ask the Carabinieri to tell women who report violence to pack their bags immediately, to leave everything behind—the house, the job—and to disappear. They must tell women the truth. Because there is no other way to protect a woman who files a complaint against her partner. She must give up everything, her life, her family. She must abandon her country and disappear. Otherwise, she must face the risk of dying ."

"What happened in Camponogara is a failure," Luca Zaia, President of the Veneto Regional Council, stated bluntly. "We must have the courage to say it clearly. Tania Terrin had reported her ex-partner, had already suffered violence, and the man had been issued a warning by the Police Commissioner. And today Tania is no longer with us. Faced with a tragedy like this," Zaia continued, "we cannot limit ourselves to mourning: we must ask ourselves what went wrong and intervene with even greater determination." "On combating violence against women," Zaia continued, "we must relentlessly continue our cultural work, especially with the younger generations, educating them about respect, freedom, and the rejection of all forms of possession and oppression. The work carried out by the Giulia Cecchettin Foundation is also fundamental in this regard, as it is helping to build a new awareness of respect and gender-based violence ."

(Unioneonline)

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