It was held last October 7, before the GIP at the Court of Catanzaro, Dr. Esposito, the warrant interrogation of CF, a Swiss citizen residing in the Catanzaro area, under investigation for the crime of persecutory acts pursuant to art. 612 bis of the criminal code, committed to the detriment of his ex-partner CC.
The same was drawn, last September 30th, from the “Ordinance on precautionary matters”, which ordered for the suspect the measure of house arrestgiven that – as we read verbatim in the preliminary indictment – “with repeated harassing, violent and threatening conduct towards his ex-partner and cohabitant CC, he caused her a persistent and serious state of anxiety and fear, giving rise to a well-founded fear of her safety and forced her to change her life habits, especially when C. did not accept the end of their relationship”.
“The defenders of Mr. CF, the lawyers. Gregorio Casalenuovo and Nicola Fernando Gagliardiboth from the Court of Catanzaro, deposited – we read in the note released by the two lawyers – during the interrogation, a series of documents attesting to the relationships existing between the offended person and the suspect, also highlighting some contradictions and investigative gaps in the in order to demonstrate the absolute absence of serious indications of guilt and precautionary requirements.
The judge for preliminary investigations, on 9 October, partially accepted the defense requests, reforming the original ordinance and replacing house arrest with the more gradual measure of a ban on approaching the offended person and the places usually frequented by the same. The defenders, while welcoming the result obtained with satisfaction, do not exclude the appeal to the Court of Review of Catanzaro in order to obtain the total annulment of the contested order”.