Firmo, a man who assaults his wife in front of their children: arrested by the Carabinieri

The Carabinieri and the Castrovillari Prosecutor's Office are constantly and continuously combating all forms of violence against women and domestic violence. It proves it first of all the last arrest of an alleged abusive husband, operated by the Lungro Carabinieri Station in Firmo, a small town in the Cosenza area with less than 2000 inhabitants.

After the wife's report and timely intervention of the military, it was possible to reconstruct a history of alleged previous abuse in the family, culminating with a physical assault suffered by the woman in front of her minor children, This time fortunately captured by a cell phone.

Victims were given the opportunity to turn to the numerous anti-violence centers present in the area. The man, considering the elements collected, he was arrested red-handed for the crime of domestic abuse e sent to prison, pending the decisions of the Judicial Authority, with the fundamental coordination of the Prosecutor's Office of Castrovillari.

In this regard, we communicate, in compliance with the rights of the suspect, that he is to be presumed innocent in consideration of the current stage of the proceedings, up to a definitive finding of guilt with irrevocable sentence, to protect the constitutionally guaranteed right to report. Furthermore, the Carabinieri of the Castrovillari Operational Unit they have developed and notified various warnings for "red code" cases, tools that represent a first barrier against the domestic violence.