Furthermore, to constitute the crime of stalking pursuant to art. 612 bis of the criminal code, two acts of threat or harassment are sufficient, as such suitable to constitute the reiteration required by the criminal provision.
The concentration of repeated harassment behaviors, even in a limited period of time, can in fact cause a psychological situation of vulnerability that acts as a determinant of one of the events of the crime.
In this case, the witnesses gave an account of the uninterrupted series of harassing behaviors by the accused, which continued for two weeks and can be traced back to the refusal of the end of the relationship, substantially characterized by insistent phone calls, messages and stalking, culminating in a violent attack.
And in a similar context, even the gift of unwanted gifts – and as such declined by the recipient – takes on an objectively annoying significance, configuring itself as a form of imposition and an implicit request to restore relations.
It is useless to argue that these were conducts aimed at mending the broken relationship.
From the reasons for the contested sentence it appears that as a consequence of the defendant's uninterrupted interference in the life of the injured party, the latter developed a lasting state of anxiety and fear, such as to induce her - immediately after the complaint - to leave the city and to make herself untraceable even to her acquaintances.