Corriere del Mezzogiorno - 11 ottobre 2010
La storia dell'avvocatessa Filomena Gallo, attivista e presidente dell'associazione Amica Cicogna
SALERNO — C’è un uomo che ha ripreso a perseguitare una donna: le lascia messaggi intimidatori nella cassetta postale, le telefona e citofona a qualsiasi ora del giorno e della notte per minacciarla o insultarla. Un classico esempio di stalking che meriterebbe non più di dieci righe in cronaca se la donna in questione non si chiamasse Filomena Gallo, avvocato salernitano nota throughout Italy for the battles for civil rights to health care and freedom. President of "Amica Cicogna" and Deputy National Luca Coscioni Association for freedom of scientific research, the lawyer Gallo just a few days ago has returned to the headlines for getting, watching a couple Tuscan can not have children , that the court in Florence to postpone the Constitutional Court Law 40 for the part that prohibits the heterologous fertilization, judged unconstitutional as affecting the right to health and basic human rights enshrined in the Charter. A great personal and professional satisfaction that goes hand in hand with the joy for the allocation of 2010 Nobel Prize to Robert Edwards, the father of the "children in a test tube."
Yet this woman, intellectually vibrant, lecturer at the University of Teramo and personal friend of Emma Bonino and Marco Pannella, daily lives in a state of fear. "There's a man who does not know which time I pursued my ideas - find the courage to confess - but I put my work available for the assertion of rights, what are my ideals, I believe and I do nothing to earn money. " The story begins near Christmas 2005 when Philip, then already very active in the defense of assisted reproduction, it is being subjected to threats of physical assault: "I was alone in the seat of Amica Cicogna - he says - and at one point knocking on the door. Wonder who is the other side and feel like a man who screams: please ask who is he? Now I'll show you how to make the children! And it starts kicking the door. I can keep calm and call 113 and a friend of mine, Riviera Manzione, who rushed with her husband. Meanwhile, the fellow escape. And on the ground leaves traces of semen. " That was five years ago. In all this time Filomena Gallo has continued its work that led, among other things, to write a part of the reformed civil code currently in detention in the House and Senate. And to attend public debates, giving interviews and opinions.
"On the evening of November 25, 2009 - again - I find a brochure in your mailbox in black. I think it is advertising material and is a short story instead of 31 pages, Zoran Drvenkar Sorry. I start leafing through it and I hit a few sentences highlighted with a black pen. In particular, on page 14: "As you make a package. Push your thighs against the breast, slide your arms under your knees. It is high ... the ports out of the apartment ... It 's as simple as throwing down the garbage. And on page 16: A nail pierces the palms of the hands, one over the other, without encountering resistance. I do not know if at that moment I feel more fear or anger. " Part of the complaint to the police against persons unknown in which the champion of infertile women also reported having received no reply call on the intercom at night and during the day someone rings the front door and then vanishes. A few days later, on December 7, another ominous warning: "In a white envelope hand-delivered are six screws and a tube of small thickness of silver, steel. All too clear reference to the book in which a woman explains how to nail the wall. " At that moment
Filomena thinks and now what to expect? Changing lifestyles: less time at home and less time with family. And never alone on the landing to return home. Meanwhile, intensified calls mute in the middle of the night. And there is also a guy who claims to have the wrong number and that fills her with insults. The private concerns but do not affect on public life: September 23 this year Filomena participate in a meeting of Pd in \u200b\u200bTarquinia Doparie for the launch of the Law 40. In the morning a new warning: "At 7.30 an intercom and a male voice, an adult, I am: still insist, do not you stop? Be careful tonight at Tarquinia. I ask: who are you, tell me who you are, do not get answer. " So far the story beyond the spotlight of Filomena Gallo, who now lives in anxiety. "And yet - he concludes - I never hurt anyone, I never had a fight and I admit my mistakes. Why should I be attacked in this way for my ideas? "
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