The European Court of Human Rights
has condemned Italy for violating the rights of an "alleged rape victim"
with a sentence that contains "passages that did not respect her private and intimate life", "unjustified comments" and a
"language and arguments that convey prejudices on the role of women
that exist in Italian society". This is what we read in the documentation released today by the Court based in Strasbourg. The case concerns a 2015 sentence by the Florence Court of Appeal
which acquitted 7 defendants accused of gang rape in the Fortezza da Basso in 2008
.
The alleged victim of violence appealed to the Strasbourg Court. In her appeal she
did not ask the Strasbourg Court to comment on the acquittal of the accused, but on the content of the sentence, which she believes violated her private life and discriminated against her
. Today the Strasbourg Court proved her right by granting her compensation for moral damages of 12,000 euros.
"I am satisfied that the European Court of Human Rights has recognized that the applicant's dignity has been trampled on by the judicial authorities". So to ANSA the lawyer Titti Carrano, who represented the 'alleged' victim of the group rape of the Fortezza da Basso. "The sentence of the Court of Appeal of Florence - he added - re-proposed gender stereotypes, thus minimizing violence,
and revitimizing the appellant, also using guilty language
. Unfortunately, this is not the only case in which a woman's non-credibility is based on the vivisection of her personal, sexual life. This often happens in Italian civil and criminal courts "." For this reason I hope that the Italian government accepts this ruling of the ECHR and does not resort to the Grand Chamber but intervenes so that there is a compulsory training of legal professionals to prevent the reproduction of sexist stereotypes in the sentences ", Carrano said again.