This is the title that was published the letter that the neighbors of Elisa Rattazzi (the woman killed by her husband Sunday Barrier in Milan) sent to La Stampa and women of government
"Dear Minister, we turn to you because you are a woman and maybe you can understand the tragedy that has happened in Turin on Sunday afternoon May 18. We knew Elisa Beatrice Rattazzi, we lived near her and her murderess for years and our children have grown up together. She was killed and yet another senseless victim of gender violence, the war that is consumed daily in the home. Elisa was a woman who was afraid for years and suffered violence and abuse, and her children with her, no one has been able or willing to help. For years he has denounced the violence committed by the husband are
all remained unheeded cry choked in his throat. The courage of the complaints, he responds with some pat on the back.
Italy has a parliament that legislates on everything, but there is no specific law, unlike other European countries and civil rights, on gender violence.
When called upon to help the police show this limit without shame.
And I'm just another slap in the face and dry for the woman, "on lady, are just bickering that happens in the best families."
What should a woman do to be believed? What are the complaints, reports of the hospital? What is proposed to stiffen penalties, then if a wife that her husband repeatedly complaint is not never believed? In this subculture of fascist Italy at the husbands seem untouchable, they must take 'husbands' and if they get angry sometimes also have their reasons. Believe even if the honor killing has been removed from the penal code, it is not from the head of the Italians. The boomerang
media, riding the pain of family members, seems to have already willing to find excuses: he had left her husband, had taken away their children, even had another man ...
Elisa was killed in the street, in broad daylight in full view of everyone, from a murderous hand that tormented her for years.
A full-scale implementation. A crime bastard, but not so common to do almost news. In this story there are no Roma extracomunitari drunk or driving off-road vehicles stolen. It's just the story of a normal all-Italian family and how we resign ourselves to know what matters in Italy is always and only the family.
This ignorance and this facade of respectability allow follies like this happen, while a press and public opinion insensitive allow to be read and stored through the grid of the Mafia code of honor. As long as we wait to see a specific law, a section of a court of the judiciary and police offices with specific expertise on gender violence? Indifference to think about the rest, see the end victim is a woman in the role normal because in our culture dirty woman can not defend. Who will tell her children of 7 and 4 years? "
I wanted to cut it, but it seemed so complete that I decided to bring it all, I add only that in Valle d'Aosta the sensitivity of the police is, by the time el 'awareness-raising activities of the Centre women against violence, much changed, but no specific laws in this respect too often are "unarmed" in the face of family violence. Think about it, but we are certainly not in silence and we believe that dealing with some "personal issues, couple, when we hear the screams of a woman's our neighbor, let us move, let's do something, even just call the police.
