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by Tiziana Di Giovannandrea 20 October 2019 Mohamed Safi in the afternoon attempted suicide in the repartino inmates of the San Giovanni-Molinette Hospital in Turin, where he is still hospitalized. The 36-year-old Tunisian was arrested by the police for the attempted murder of his partner who tried to cut his throat in the night between Friday and Saturday in the street, on the outskirts of the Piedmontese capital. The man worked as a waiter for two years in a restaurant in Grugliasco, 5 kilometers from Turin, and here he met the woman he wanted to kill.

In the hospital the man tried to hang himself with a noose formed by a disposable gown and some pieces of gauze used to hold a cannula needle on his arm. In the minutes before the suicide attempt the Tunisian would insistently ask for a cigarette that would have been denied. To save him the emergency intervention of the sanitary and of the agents of the penitentiary Police.

In the next few hours Safi should appear before the magistrate for the validation of his arrest.

As noted Mohamed Safi, during the work permit from the prison in Vallette, where he was to serve a 12-year sentence for the murder of his girlfriend, Alessandra Mainolfi, tried to slaughter the current companion in Turin around one o'clock at night. He repeatedly hit the woman in the face with the shards of a glass bottle, disfiguring her. The facial nerve has been damaged and reconstructed under the microscope by the doctors of the Hospital Maria Vittoria, where she is hospitalized. If the woman had not worn a scarf she would have died. The woman after discovering the man's past, of which she was totally in the dark, would have decided to leave him. Hence the absurd and ferocious violence against her.

Leo Beneduci, general secretary of Osapp (autonomous union organization Penitentiary police) commented on the attempted suicide of Safi saying: "Once again the prison police show professionalism and spirit of sacrifice attesting, even on this occasion, to make no difference between the prisoners, all considered indifferently human beings ".

Vice President Telefono Rosa Piemonte , avv. Anna Ronfani considers that there are many reflections to make on cases like this: "Closing a relationship with a wrong man is not always enough to get away from the revenge of males able to think of themselves only masters and punishers". "There are men who treat women as objects of property, denying the right to physical and mental safety, until the destruction of the soul and the body - explains Ronfani - It is their primitive, perverse and criminal way of accrediting themselves as males But it is too superficial and partial to say that masculine ferocity is the immature answer to female autonomy, since it affects indifferently both 'disobedient' and 'submissive' companions Silence, sacrifice, solitude and illusion of change nourish violence male".