He had blocked the door with a table and detached the alarm bell, but he was declared unable to understand. In Modena Egyptian from 17 years old violently a woman
From the bed in the corridor of the Molinette hospital department of Turin, where eating disorders are caught and where most patients are women, a 36 -year -old Iraqi photographer hospitalized with a generic anxiety disorder linked to panic crisis, in the middle of the night he gets up, enters a room, blocks the door with a table, puts the alarm bell out of use and after tearing the bladder cateter of a thirty -six. violent wildly. The poor woman screams, no nurse rushes, the man runs away in the next room and tries to attack another anorexic patient but luckily the bell works there and takes the alarm.
After one year, the Iraqi photographer who arrived in Turin as a political asylum seeker was acquitted because according to the judge he was “totally unable to understand and want at the time of conduct”. It is now free of charge. Do we have to stay with the breath suspended, waiting for a new psychotic raptus against some other woman?
The dynamics of the incident
The story and the crudeness of the details leave few doubts about the approximation with which the courts sometimes accept the expertise, without deepening inexplicable dynamics and behaviors. It was the morning of March 25, 2024 when the man shows up at the emergency room of the garrison which is part of the Hospital-University of the City of Health and Science of Turin. Maybe he was in a mix of cannabis and alcohol.
Until nine in the evening the Iraqi is subjected to investigations, then it is hospitalized in the small department alongside that of university psychiatry and where eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa are treated. They leave him in the corridor, fall asleep on the stretcher but three hours later he wakes up. “Enter the room in front of him and where there was my client who was very bad, with strong eating disorders,” says the lawyer Elena Blacks who defends the raped woman.
The man moves a table in front of the door because nobody enters, puts the bell out of order, tears the bladder catheter and violent with brutality from the young woman. «A terrible thing. Considering the dynamics, difficult to think that he did not know what he was doing, “comments the lawyer. The woman screams but nobody seems to hear her, the two nurses of the night are in the coffee club at the bottom of the corridor.
The photographer runs away from the room, enters the next one where two women are hospitalized and tries to attach one. He shouts it, the trousers again fall ready to repeat the violence, then the bell finally works and the staff arrives. The man is moved to central psychiatry (then the place was there!), Where it remains a month until it is imprisoned to the valleys.
The psychiatric report
In the appraisal ordered by the judge for preliminary investigations, psychiatrists last July Franco Freilone And Maurizio Desana They declare that Iraqi was socially dangerous, but that at the time of the violence committed he was unable to understand and want. As a precautionary, he is transferred to a Rems, a residence for crime authors suffering from mental and socially dangerous disorders, but from this he can also go out “with permission of the judge to go to the presentation of his book of photographs”, he specifies Blacks. The acquittal sentence arrived two days ago.
The lawyer, who refused the abbreviated rite in order not to have to accept the acquittal of the accused as definitive, remains with strong doubts. “Our code plans to do not have to proceed when there is an inability to understand and want, but in this case it is not clear why a report was accepted that had limits and lack of insights, unnecessarily required by me even if there was time to be able to do them”.
It explains better: «The expertise refers to a possible schizophrenia or schizophrenformiform disorder, therefore contrasts with the diagnosis made at the time of hospitalization, or not specified psychosis. A little disturbed person for the use of cannabis and alcohol ». “Vigilant, conscious and collaborative” had been evaluated in the emergency room.
If it was schizophrenic, why didn’t those who had visited him for a long time and then hospitalized it in the wrong department, not in central psychiatry and with the serious negligence not to alert the nurses?
The lawyer is asked: “This inability to understand and want limited to the moment of the violence committed, given that the man was a man was a totally capable person and was it also shortly after?” He adds: “We had to deepen the consumption of Iraqi cannabinoids, because those who voluntarily put themselves in the alteration situations then respond to their actions, indeed it is an aggravating circumstance”.
His young assisted, already with serious anorexia problems, for many months has remained traumatized by sexual abuse. Certainly, neither she nor any other woman will feel calmly to know that Iraqi is in freedom, albeit with a therapeutic path. Too many are the episodes of violence that the news records.
Two days ago, a 17 -year -old foreigner raped a 65 -year -old lady intent on jogging in a fraction of the province of Modena. He was by bicycle, he approached him, dragged into a moat and also beaten to scream. The young man was a guest of a community for unaccompanied minors. Provided that it is not an adult, who lied on the true age to enter the specific reception program.
