He Refuses to Let His Daughter Live with an Italian: This Moroccan Man Sentenced to Two Years in Prison
A 50-year-old Moroccan man has been sentenced to two years in prison in Italy for threatening and mistreating his 20-year-old daughter. The father did not accept her relationship with a young Italian man or her decision to go and live with him.
The case was heard by the court in Fermo, in the Marche region. According to Il Resto del Carlino, the fifty-year-old refused to let his daughter date an Italian and disapproved of what he considered an overly Western lifestyle.
His attempts to end the relationship had the opposite effect. At 20, the young woman left the family home to move in with her boyfriend, a young man her age living in Fermo. It was from that moment that the family situation allegedly deteriorated sharply.
The father then reportedly engaged, according to the evidence considered by the Italian justice system, in a series of threats, some of them death threats, as well as psychological and physical violence. The young woman, who said she feared for her life, eventually decided to contact the police.
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Investigators from the Fermo Mobile Squad gathered several pieces of evidence that led the public prosecutor’s office to request a protection measure. The judge had prohibited the father from approaching his daughter and the places she regularly visited, as well as from communicating with her directly or indirectly.
Two years in prison after his daughter’s complaint
At the end of the investigation, the Moroccan man was sent before the court for family mistreatment and aggravated threats. The trial ended with a two-year prison sentence.
The case recalls another case heard in Italy in 2019. A Moroccan woman had her father sentenced to ten years in prison after he attempted to run her over with his car during a conflict notably concerning the young woman’s outings.
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In the Fermo case, the justice system determined that the conflict surrounding the young woman’s love life had gone beyond the scope of a family disagreement, leading to threats and violence serious enough to first justify a restraining order and then a criminal conviction.