Seymandi asks 'forced indictment' for haters amid row

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 6 - A Turin businesswoman who was submerged with online hate after her Milanese banker fiancé annulled their engagement accusing her of cheating at the dinner meant to confirm it has asked for the "forced indictment" of the haters after a prosecutor said they should be spared because social media standards of expression are "less elegant" than those in real life.
    The case of Cristina Seymandi, her ex boyfriend Massimo Segre and the explosion of virulent online hate against her has gained major headlines in Italy.
    In asking for the case to be dropped, Turin Chief Prosecutor Roberto Furlan said shelving the case was justified by the fact that in social media "it no longer seems necessary that criticism of people's private matters always be expressed in measured and elegant tones.
    "The progressive diffusion of circumstances pertaining to private life and the spread of social media has made the habit of comments common, even with robust, sarcastic, polemical and impolite tones", said Furlan.
    In contesting the request to shelve the case, Seymandi's lawyer Claudio Strata said he was filing "a petition to continue the investigations and then the forced indictment of those guilty of making my client's life hell." photo: lawyers for both sides (ANSA).