Obsessed with savings: an Italian will go to prison for having subjected his partner to a strict domestic economy

The Supreme Court of Italy upheld a sentence of one year and five months a man from the city of Bologna (north) who subjected his housewife to strict rules of “domestic savings”, such as the rationing of water or toilet paper.

The sentence, collected in the portal of experts in legal matters Cassazione.net, confirms the sentence of one year and five months in prison for abuse dictated in other cases about it “obsessed with saving”.

The convict had come to subject his wife to “a state of anxiety and frustration” because of a strict regime he had imposed in the husband’s house.

The victim, according to local media, had denounced that he could only buy products on sale and limit his water consumption, with one shower per weekor toilet paper.

This way of life, for the justices of the Supreme Court, has become a real coercion fed by methods of control and attacksdespite the fact that the marriage was not experiencing financial difficulties, both parties had a job and a salary.

This is not the first time that the High Court has spoken out on situations of this style. In June 2000, the Supreme Court ruled that “persistent and systemic conduct by a spouse intended to the life of his companion is unbearable, with a humiliating and unjustified vexation there exasperated greedfalls under the typology of the crime of family violence.

On the other hand, the Italian Civil Code stipulates in its article 143 that “with marriage, husband and wife acquire the same rights and dutieswith “the reciprocal obligation of fidelity, moral and material assistance and collaboration in the interest of the family and of coexistence”.

(With information from EFE)

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