Bolzano, he threatens his ex-girlfriend with death, stalks her and spreads her intimate videos: 47-year-old arrested

On Saturday, during normal patrolling and general prevention service along the streets and neighborhoods of the capital, The agents of the "Flying" Team of the State Police arrested a 47-year-old from Bolzano, in flagrante delicto of Persecutory Acts (stalking) against a woman living in Bolzano with whom he had had a romantic relationship in the past.

In particular, the Operations Center yesterday afternoon of the Police Headquarters received a request for intervention from the victim, which in at that moment she was running away through the city streets as she was being followed and threatened by her ex-lover, who could not accept the end of the relationship.

Responded immediately to the scene, after identifying the car used by the stalker the Police they managed to block it in a short time, after he had carried out some maneuvers that endangered pedestrians and other motorists. The man was taken out of the car immediately – already known by the police for specific precedents for “CODE RED” crimes – he was taken to the Police Headquarters offices for the continuation of the investigations.

When formalizing the complaint, the victim reported that she had been dating her current persecutor for about 2 years; he, without the woman's knowledge, he had videotaped her during their intimate relations, and then threatened to spread the images if she had the intention of leaving him. the woman for more than a year, for fear of threats, she had continued to have intimate relations with her tormentor, alone purpose of avoiding the disclosure of such images.

Nevertheless, the subject had not failed to show the videos to some mutual acquaintances: done, this, that determined the victim to interrupt the relationship with her persecutor and to report him, ordering him never to be seen again.

Indifferent to the wishes of the ex-partner, the man had reacted by bombarding her with phone calls, messages, delivery of love notes and flowers, all with continuous and obsessive stalking, stakeouts and surprise appearances in places frequented by the victim. This attitude caused a state of strong anxiety and agitation to grow in the woman, so much so that it induced her, advised by the people closest to her, to go to the Police Headquarters offices to ask for information on the behavior to maintain if situations similar to those described above had recurred.

The persecutor a once he realized that his ex-lover had turned to the police, suddenly changed his attitude, going as far as repeatedly threatening her with death; the victimalso on various occasions she found her bicycle tires slashed, And with the tank of his car full of substances capable of destroying the engine.

Exasperated, scared and fearful that the situation could turn into a tragedy, victim si finally decided to formalize the complaint against the torturer to the police. Leaving the police station a few minutes ago, yesterday afternoon the woman called the agents back reporting that, while she was on her bicycle to carry out some errands, she realized that her ex-partner was following her in his car. from immediate view of security cameras of the Municipality of Bolzano, the Agents of the Police Operations Centre they were able to follow the movements of the persecutor in real time, in such a way as to communicate them to colleagues at Volante e to allow the latter to identify and block it in a few moments, at the moment in which, as has been said, he was carrying out risky maneuvers in traffic so as not to lose sight of his "prey", such as to endanger vehicles and people. Clearly shocked and scared by what had happened, the victim confirmed, to supplement the complaint, what happened just now: approached by the man while he was riding his bicycle, the latter, driving his own car, he began to threaten and even insult her, forcing her to reverse direction of travel to try to escape his control. Escape attempt proved futile as the attacker, he got out of the car and blocked her, preventing her from escaping.

Conducted the man in the police headquarters, subsequent investigations revealed the man's antecedents, not new to committing persecutory acts.

At the end of the Judicial Police proceedings, the persecutor was declared under arrest and made available to the Judicial Authority.
In light of what happened and the precedents against him, the Police Commissioner of the Province of Bolzano Paolo Sartori, after having activated the Anti-Crime Division of the Police Headquarters in this regard, has ordered the start of the procedure aimed at issuing the Public Security Special Surveillance Prevention Measure to the arrested person.

“Gender violence and stalking, in addition to representing particularly heinous forms of crime as they are committed against victims who are often unable to defend themselves, represent a serious cultural problem – Commissioner Sartor highlightedi –The State Police represents a fundamental hub of a network made up of institutions, local bodies, anti-violence centers and voluntary associations, and has always been at the forefront, even with specific projects, in encouraging a culture of gender equality, equality and respect for freedoms, with the with the aim of eliminating cultural heritage and discrimination, as well as with the aim of helping women to defend themselves, to ask for help and to report the violence they have suffered".