A lawyer from Usmate Velate (Monza) was sentenced at first instance by the Court of Monza to four years of imprisonment and interdiction from the profession for five years, on charges of judicial stalking against a businessman from Brianza. Apparently, it is the first sentence in Italy for this crime.
According to the investigations coordinated by the m of Monza Michela Versini, the lawyer would have filed over 200 civil and criminal cases against his former client since, in 2011, he decided to terminate their collaboration, in fact starting to upset the his life and that of his family. "With the systematic and instrumental recourse to incessant and unfounded judicial actions", the lawyer reads "the lawyer" harassed the aforementioned, forcing them to change their life habits and exposing them to continuous procedural costs and serious repercussions on the plan professional and personal image ".
