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
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