Italian Women Can Legally Lie
IN Italy it is legal for a women to lie. The Court of Cassation, the highest appeal court in the country, says so:
Italy’s highest appeal court has ruled that married Italian women who commit adultery are entitled to lie about it to protect their honour.
The court gave its landmark ruling after hearing the case of a 48-year-old woman, convicted of giving false testimony to police by denying she had lent her mobile phone to her lover.
The appeal court did not agree that she had broken the law.
It said bending the truth was justified to conceal extra-marital relationships.
In a predominantly Catholic country you might expect the courts to take a dim view of lying and adultery.
But not in this case.
The woman who brought the appeal was from Porto Ercole on the Tuscany coast, and named only as Carla.
She had lent her telephone to her secret lover, Giovanni, who then used it to call Carla’s estranged husband, Vincenzo, and insult him.
Giovanni, the lover, was convicted of abusive behaviour in a local court, and Carla convicted as an accessory.
Last month the court ruled that men who touch their genitals in public are committing a criminal offence. Better to touch someone else’s…
Posted: 8th, March 2008 | In: Strange But True Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
