A femicide that could have been avoided, that of Vanessa Ballan, but the assessment of "non-urgency" made by the magistrates was "unfortunately revealed to be unfounded" , observes the same public prosecutor of Treviso Marco Martani .

There had been a complaint , there had been clear attempts at threats and harassment , there was also an attempt to break into the victim's house . Today we are instead faced with feminicide number 109 of 2023 in Italy, and we are once again asking ourselves how much the laws can do against this scourge.

The relationship between Vanessa and Bujar Fandaj was born in 2022, they met in the supermarket where she worked. It all ended in June, at least in Vanessa's intentions, because then the demands and threats from the Kosovar began, who promised to spread the images of the two of them. Threats that the young woman tried to hide from her partner, Nicola, even deleting the messages received.

But he found out about it, supported her and helped her file a complaint last October 26th .

«Code red complaints - explains Martani - are handled by the magistrate on duty, who then passes the file to the magistrate of the vulnerable group. In that case, within a day the search had been carried out and the file passed to the competent magistrate, who had not considered there were the elements for requesting a precautionary measure, but had decided to deepen the investigations by asking for the records of the telephone . The only measure that could have prevented the attack would have been prison, a measure for which there was objectively insufficient evidence. Therefore the assessment made was of non-urgency, which unfortunately proved to be unfounded ."

In short, the case was underestimated. And in the meantime Bujar was planning the crime, which in the opinion of those investigating it was premeditated. A few days earlier he had tried to climb over the fence of the woman's house and had bought a new SIM. He had the knives at home, the hammer he used for work, the murder weapons . He took the bike to go unnoticed and hit.

Second femicide in a month in Veneto, so much so that President Luca Zaia underlines the need to " put the law that establishes the red code into action, because timeliness is fundamental ".

(Unioneonline/L)

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