Threats, harassment and even whipped with a rope in order to make them retract the declarations made to the magistrates of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Palmi on the sexual abuse suffered by a group of young people, including alleged scions of gangs of ‘Ndrangheta del Reggino. It is the fate touched, according to the accusation, to one of the two young people – minors at the time of the facts, from January 2022 to November 2023 – raped by the pack between Seminara and Castellace di Oppido Mamertina.
A story that brought, at first instance, to the Condemn of six boys to painable penalties from 13 to 5 years of imprisonment and the acquittal of other seven. The story has been enriched in these days of further measures. The investigating judge of Palmi, at the request of the Prosecutor, in fact ordered the house arrest for a 78 -year -old aunt of the young woman and the ban on closer the offended part to the 47 -year -old son of the woman and cousin of the victim. The measures were notified, in Castellace of Oppido Mamertina and Scido, by staff of the Palmi della della Police Commissariat and the carabinieri of the stations dependent on the Palmi Company, assisted by a dog unit of the police.
According to the accusation, mother and son, to induce the girl – “guilty” in their eyes to have collaborated with justice – they subjected it to a series of harassment with repeated physical and verbal violence, threats and harassment. In one case, after having attracted it in a real trap, the two would also have beaten it with a rope used like a whisk. The prosecutor of Palmi also contest the aggravating circumstance of the abject reasons, that is “for hatred and resentment” to the girl because of her collaboration with the investigators, to mom and son. The other girl victim of the violence also faced the consequences of her collaboration, but not in the family sphere, which indeed has tightened her, but at an environmental level.
The young woman, in fact, was forced to leave her country, Seminara, for the hostile climate that had been created towards her and her family. A double violence, first the physical one then the moral and psychological one, which pushed the young man of the young woman, in recent weeks, to make the decision to change the municipality of residence. A movement made possible thanks to the interest of the President of the Calabria Region Roberto Occhiuto for the assignment of an Aterp accommodation in another municipality of the Reggio area. The woman then said she had no help from anyone in the village, not even “from the municipality or the parish”, and that many had also removed her greeting. Words that also found confirmation in the manifestation of solidarity towards the daughter held on 13 April in Seminara with, denounced the woman, “very low local appearances”.