The State Police of Turin has carried out two precautionary custody orders issued by the Judge for Preliminary Investigations of the Court of Turin against two subjects who, in the investigative hypothesis, were responsible in various capacities for stalking a victim who had expressed her experience in the delicate process of changing sex on social media.

The offended person had in fact reported, on several occasions, to the operators of the Postal Police of the COSC Piedmont-Valle d'Aosta, that he was the victim of repeated insults, threats and publications of personal data on various channels activated on a well-known streaming platform, through recordings and live broadcasts in which she was in particular attacked with manifestations of transphobic hatred, with the aim of inducing her to interrupt her gender transition process or in any case to silence her about her emotional condition.

The hate speech was also followed by episodes of physical stalking against him, dissemination of personal data, blackmail aimed at the victim in private on social profiles, also reinforced by the presentation of the particular work role of the interlocutor, who passed himself off as an "official of the Ministry of the Interior", capable of knowing the movements and details of the personal life of their "target" at any time, up to and including death threats.

Furthermore, numerous accounts linked to erotic or dating sites had also been illicitly created, containing some of the victim's personal data, which had also contributed to generating anxieties and fears of becoming the victim of other virtual attacks, or worse, physical attacks by of criminals who could easily track it in the urban environment. Overall, the stalking lasted more than a year.

The investigations carried out by the Postal Police, under the direction of the Turin Prosecutor's Office, made it possible to cross-reference a series of computer traces and data of investigative interest, making it possible to trace the two suspects: in particular, one of the two was the author of the live streams of a denigrating nature ; the other, in possession of access credentials to databases containing personal data due to his work activity, had managed to illicitly steal the personal data subsequently disseminated, which is why the crime of unauthorized access to the system is also hypothesized against him computer or telematic.

Further investigations are still underway aimed at examining in detail the dynamics underlying the affair and the two suspects must be considered not guilty until a final sentence is reached.

Hate speech, stalking, death threats: the State Police arrests two thirty-year-olds from Turin.