Omar Favaro rejects accusations of mistreatment against his wife: “Never said those phrases”

Omar Favaro rejects the accusations: «I never said those phrases towards the one who was my wife.” In the interrogation in Ivrea, in the province of Turin, the forty-year-old answered the questions of the public prosecutor Ludovico Bosso, who at the end of the investigation accused him of sexual assaultfor a non-consensual relationship and for mistreatment towards his ex-wife.

23 years ago Omar Favaro was the protagonist of one of the most dramatic crimes in Italy, the Novi Ligure massacre. Together with his girlfriend at the time, Erika De Nardo, he killed Susy Cassini and Gianluca De Nardo, respectively the girl's mother and younger brother, with almost a hundred stab wounds.

«We requested the interrogation after the closure of the investigation to clarify that all accusations are not true. Our client contested all the conduct and recounted the family dynamics experienced during the years of marriage”, explained Favaro's lawyers. «Among the questions asked, there was also one on the evolution of marriage. Our client claimed that he had never uttered the phrases of which he is accused and also provided different evidence on the veracity of his words. We have highlighted the instrumentality of this accusation arrived after the separation cause.” According to the lawyers, it would only be a question of a move by the ex to secure custody of her daughter of the couple: Favaro claims that the woman “invented everything” and speaks of slander.

The man had met his ex-wife on social media 9 years ago and the couple had a baby girl. Then the woman accused him of around twenty episodes of mistreatment, all of which occurred between 2019 and 2021. The accusations are serious: from repeated death threats, to those of scarring the woman's face with acid, to physical, economic and psychological violence.

Favaro's ex-wife said she was continually harassed with humiliating phrases such as: “I'll scar you with acid”, “You disgust”, and “You're anorexic”. After the separation, she denounced Omar and asked for sole custody of her daughter.

The investigations had led the investigators to ask for the precautionary measure of a ban on him from approaching the victims, but both the investigating judge and the Court of Review denied it, not seeing any dangers: his ex-wife lives elsewhere with the little girl, the facts contested are distant in time and he has already served his sentence for the Novi Ligure massacre. «It emerges here a “natural” punishment that lasts and persists over time and beyond the strictly juridical one that has now been atoned for. Natural punishment that manifests itself in various forms”, the judges wrote, “with respect to wife who considers Favaro irremediably lost, showing a strong interest in excluding the man from her daughter's life thus avoiding problematic comparisons with the outside world” and also with the little girl, with respect to whom “the problematic question of revealing the father's past arises”.