Rome, calls 112 but she dies: she was full of bruises, comrade arrested

A man was arrested for ill-treatment after his partner suffered a respiratory crisis and died. The facts date back to the early afternoon of last January 18, when from an apartment in the San Paolo district, in Rome, a call for help came from a man asking for help for his partner, at the single emergency number 112. Respiratory crisis. The medical staff who intervened confirmed his death and, since several bruises were present on the woman’s body, alerted the police. From the first findings, the need for immediate insights appeared evident. From the first analysis on the body, carried out by the consultants, and in relation to the information acquired by the judicial police on the relational context of the victim, the man was arrested in flagrant for the crime of ill-treatment against family members and cohabitants. Serious indications of a crime emerged against him in relation to physical and psychological violence against his partner for months, through harassment, beatings and social isolation. The preliminary medical-legal findings established that some of the injuries on the woman’s body had been inflicted even shortly before the arrival of the doctors. The investigating judge of the Court of Rome, at the outcome of the validation hearing, confirmed the restrictive measure and ordered the precautionary measure of the prison, as requested by the prosecutor.