'You are my property', he goes under house arrest and she leaves Italy out of fear

According to the prosecution, he subjected his partner, a 24-year-old Mexican woman, to threats, beatings and sexual violence until she was forced to leave Italy out of fear.

For him, a 25-year-old Italian, the investigating judge of the Court of Bergamo ordered house arrest.

The Flying Squad's investigation started with the intervention of a police squad in the man's home. It was the young woman who alerted 112, who was rescued and then transferred to hospital where she left with a prognosis of 5 days.

The investigations made it possible to reconstruct a rapid escalation of control, intimidation and violence that began from the first days of the relationship. The 25-year-old, resident in Bergamo, progressively limited his partner's freedom, preventing her from going out alone and subjecting her to insults, death threats and repeated physical attacks, with slaps and punches. In the context of prevarications and threats, he repeated to her that she was "his property": the young man frightened her by boasting of alleged acquaintances among the police and telling her that therefore no one would believe his accusations.

The 25-year-old is accused of aggravated sexual assault, stalking and injury.