Potenza, domestic dispute escalates into violence: 30-year-old arrested after two years of abuse

I soldiers of the Operational and Radiomobile Nucleus of the Carabinieri Company of Potenza, assisted by staff from the local station, intervened in the capital following a signaling arrived at 112 for a domestic dispute. Once at the house, the Carabinieri found a woman in her early thirties in a very agitated stateOnce calm was restored, the victim was entrusted to the care of 118 staff, simultaneously alerted by the Operations Centre.

From the first investigations it emerged that the cohabitant, the woman's age and originally from the province, he had verbally assaulted her and threatened her, also in the presence of the minor child, breaking, in a fit of rage, the glass of a door of the house. The military investigations revealed that the young woman had been subjected to abusive behavior for about two years, among which harassment, physical and verbal assaults never reported.

The man, after having refused medical care, Was arrested in flagrante delicto in implementation of “Red Code” protocol and taken to the Carabinieri offices in Via Pretoria. At the end of the formalities, he was transferred to the Potenza prison, available to the Judicial Authority. The GIP of the Court of Potenza ha the arrest was validated and arranged the pre-trial detention in prison against the accused, for whom the following applies: presumption of innocence until the final sentence.

Il Provincial Command of the Carabinieri of Potenza finally draws attention to theimportance of timely reporting of episodes of domestic or gender-based violence: the readiness to compose the NUE 112 or in going to the Nearest Carabinieri station It is essential to ensure immediate intervention and protection of victims.