Potenza: 40-year-old arrested for threats, revenge porn, and extortion against his ex-partner.

Il fight against gender violence and related crimes represents a absolute priority for Provincial Command of the Carabinieri of Potenza, engaged in constant monitoring of the territory and a thorough investigative effort. Thanks to this activity, in the last few hours the military has arrested, in flagrant deferral, 40enne merchant resident in the province and already known to the police.

The operation originates from a serious incident which took place in Venosino, culminating in the complaint filed by a 35enne of the place. The woman, with great courage, decided to put an end to a long series of harassing conduct, threats and stalking behavior suffered by the man with whom she had been living together.

According to the reconstruction, the suspect would have exercised a constant and oppressive control on the victim: abuse in the family, pressure to obtain sexual performance, repeated harassment even after the end of the relationship. A picture defined by the investigators of extreme severity.

The escalation culminated when the forty-year-old, not resigned to the separation, allegedly advanced a extortionate demand for money, alternatively threatening the disclosure of intimate photographic and video material, The so-called revenge porn, acquired while living together. When the woman flatly refused, the man allegedly followed through on the threat, sending the material to the victim's current partner via WhatsApp.

Thanks to 'timely intervention of the Carabinieri of the local station, the suspect was traced and subjected to personal and home searchesThe checks led to the seizure of a phone containing the illegal audio-video files and the discovery of approximately 25 grams of hashish, as well as various packaging materials. Elements that have also led to the hypothesis of illegal possession of narcotic substances.

Once the ritual formalities were completed, the man was transferred to the Melfi County Jail. The Judge for Preliminary Investigations of the Court of Potenza, having assessed the gravity of the facts and the multiplicity of the hypotheses of crime, has the arrest was validated, applying the measure of the pre-trial detention in prisonThe principle remains firm presumption of innocence until the final sentence.

Il Provincial Command of the Carabinieri of Potenza makes an appeal to all victims of gender violence, cybercrime with a sexual motive ed extortion, inviting them to turn with confidence to the 112 or to the Carabinieri Stations present in the territory. timeliness of the complaint It represents, in fact, a fundamental element in ensuring immediate protection and interrupting the spiral of violence, like the one from which the young woman finally emerged.