Olbia, violent and persecuted his partner: sentenced to 9 years

Now he just wants to go back to life, after six years of violence of all kinds and, finally, ten years of investigations and hearings. She is an entrepreneur from Olbia, just over 50 years old, who learned yesterday (she was not in the courtroom) of the end of the criminal trial which saw her victim of sexual violence, injuries, attempted very serious injuries, mistreatment and stalking. The Court of Tempio (a college chaired by Giuseppe Magliulo) sentenced the woman's former partner, Giovanni Calvani, an entrepreneur who for a long time worked in the city in the supply of technical workwear to nine years in prison. The prosecutor had asked for seven years in prison, the judges inflicted two more on the man. Over the course of dozens of hearings, a gruesome story was told in the courtroom, starting in 2009 and not over yet.

Raped

Calvani was found responsible for repeated sexual violence. He allegedly abused his partner for months, forcibly forcing her to have sex. He would have hidden from the woman that he was HIV-positive, exposing her to the risk of contagion (fortunately not) and for this reason he was convicted of attempted very serious injuries. The victim was beaten at home (on one occasion a heavy table was thrown at her) and several times in public. Prosecutor Mauro Lavra also contested the use of stones to hit the victim, which took place on a beach on the Olbia coast. In addition to physical violence there are moral ones, continuous insults and after the end of the relationship also persecution with phone calls and chats. Calvani's defender, the criminal lawyer Angelo Merlini, did not make any statements yesterday, but the appeal is certain. The victim appeared as a civil party (assisted by the lawyer Nicola Di Benedetto) and asked for compensation of 250 thousand euros. "I do not hide - says Di Benedetto - that even the trial was an ordeal". In fact, with the change of five colleges and hearings for seven years, the pain caused by the infinite times of the trial was added to the suffering for the violence suffered.

Andrea Busia