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Woman killed by ex could have been saved says family

Risks were clear but nothing was done says lawyer

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 19 - A 56-year-old woman murdered by her 54-year-old ex husband near Sorrento on Thursday could have been saved if authorities had responded to her many calls for help with measures such as an electronic ankle bracelet, her lawyer told ANSA Saturday.
    "The warning signs were all there, that she was in danger was now clear and despite this nothing was done to prevent that man from killing her", commented Giovanni De Gennaro, lawyer of the family of Anna Scala, the woman stabbed to death last August 17 by Salvatore Ferraiuolo in Piano di Sorrento, in the province of Naples.
    "A precautionary measure, even just a bracelet, would have avoided this tragedy," the lawyer told ANSA.
    Some 75 femicides have been committed in Italy this year, the vast majority by exes or current partners.
    Scala reported Ferraiuolo twice for domestic violence and threats. (ANSA).
   

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