The European Court of Human Rights on
Thursday condemned Italy for not protecting a woman and her two
children from domestic violence that ended with her one-year-old
son being stabbed to death by his father.
In the attack at Scarperia near Florence in September 2018, the
man also gravely wounded his partner and tried to kill the other
child, a girl.
The ECHR said that "prosecutors remained passive regarding the
serious risks the woman was facing and with their inaction
allowed the companion to continue to threaten and attack her".
It sentenced Italy to pay the woman 32,000 euros for moral
damage.
The mother, Annalisa Landi, filed suit with the ECHR saying the
Italian State had violated her and her children's right to life
and that the violence against her was partly due to a
discriminatory attitude towards her by authorities.
The woman had already been attacked three times by her partner
and had filed complaints with police, in November 2015,
September 2017 and February 2018.
Despite the opening of a probe into domestic violence and a
recommendation that the man should undergo therapy for mental
problems, no steps were taken to protect the woman and her
children.
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