The compensation for the daughter's femicide never arrived, the taxes did

Six thousand euros in taxes on the compensation of 1 million and 200 thousand euros that they should have received from the murderer of their daughter. Money that never arrived, despite the fact that this provided for a definitive sentence, when on the contrary, punctually, the request from the Revenue Agency was delivered in triplicate: to the mother, the father and the sister. A little more than 16 years after the murder of the then thirty-year-old Giulia Galiotto, killed by stoning by her husband Marco Manzini (it was February 2009), the pain of the relatives of the victim of that femicide that shook the small community of San Michele dei Mucchietti, in Sassuolo, in the province of Modena, is rekindled by what Giulia Galiotto's mother, Giovanna Ferrari, today defines as "economic violence by the institutions".

The family opposed the request of the Revenue Agency, filing an appeal: "Fortunately, money is not our problem - clarifies Giulia Galiotto's mother who for years has been committed, after her daughter's death, to raising awareness about gender violence - But many economically disadvantaged women do not face legal proceedings like ours and give up compensation, precisely because of the risk of finding themselves in this situation". The one million and two hundred thousand euros had been definitively established together with the 19-year prison sentence for the husband. Manzini, originally from Scandiano in the province of Reggio Emilia, had convinced Giulia Galiotto to join him at her parents' house in San Michele dei Mucchietti, in the garage, and during a subsequent argument he had grabbed a stone and repeatedly hit the woman on the head, until she died. He had subsequently disposed of the body by making it end up in the nearby Secchia river; he had staged his wife's suicide. But the plot constructed after the murder had not stood up to the investigations of the carabinieri. Sentenced to 19 years in prison following a sentence that did not recognize premeditation, Manzini obtained semi-liberty in 2022, returning to freedom last year. The last contact between the man and Giulia's family was when he, through his lawyer, had written to the victim's relatives proposing a sum of 50 euros per month as criminal mediation. A figure far from the one million and 200 thousand euros established by the court. In the last three years he had been subjected to probation by social services in semi-liberty "and he had been given - adds Giovanna Ferrari - a full-time commitment and with a fixed-term contract in a company in Reggio, where he carried out a job similar to the one he had before his arrest. We had obtained the seizure of a fifth of the salary he received. At the end of last July, since he has been a free man, he resigned. To date we do not know if and where he works".