(ANSA) - PERUGIA, 30 NOV - The Perugia Public Prosecutor has revoked the request for dismissal that had been advanced in the context of the investigation launched against a man of North African origin accused of having forced his wife to keep the veil in full. This was announced by the Judicial Office of the Umbrian capital led by Raffaele Cantone.
The request for revocation of the request for filing - explains the Prosecutor of Perugia - was decided following the presentation of opposition by the injured person. It is justified "by the need to carry out further investigative activities, to which the notice of opposition refers, including the direct hearing of the plaintiff".
In the same note, signed by the Cantone prosecutor, it is recalled that the procedure "in recent days had been the subject of special media attention for a sentence extrapolated from the request for dismissal relating to the compulsion of the complainant to keep the full veil".
In particular, the act argued that "the conduct of forcing to keep the full veil falls within the quadrocultural, although not acceptable from a Western point of view, of the subjects concerned".
"Imposing the veil cannot be right in our country which has its own rules. Which are certainly not those of the Islamic tradition," said the prosecutor after the case was in the newspapers.
In the request for dismissal of the prosecutor, now revoked, it was argued, among other things, that "the couple's relationship is characterized by strong religious-cultural influences to which the woman does not seem to have the strength or the will to escape".
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