With reference to the phenomenon of "hate speech" on the net, with the steadily increasing diffusion of messages inciting hatred by anonymous haters, last February, the Honorable Lucia Annibali, following the proposal of a amendment to the so-called “Milleproroghe” decree was the target of numerous insults and attacks via social networks.
Among the messages there was also the shock, denounced by numerous media outlets, published by the user of a fake Facebook profile that stated «Luca Varani you are my myth. Honor and thanks to Luca Varani, you did your duty as a man for a miserable infamous », referring to the ex-boyfriend of the deputy, responsible in 2013 for the attack with acid against the honorable Annibali.
The Postal and Communications Police Service, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Court of Rome, has therefore launched an investigative activity aimed at identifying the holder of the false profile, which was removed immediately after publication, author of messages damaging to dignity staff of the parliamentarian, already particularly exposed to insults on social media by numerous "haters".
The particular Open Source Intelligence activities carried out on the internet by the specialists have made it possible to detect, also through the use of peculiar semantic analysis tools, the convergence of some elements that connoted some messages present in other Social profiles, attributable to a man of 53 years old and resident in Rome, the investigations have focused on.
Further evidence and unequivocal evidence on the responsibility of the person identified were then acquired, who finally admitted to having opened the "fake" profile by exploiting anonymous connections and therefore being the author of the messages addressed to Annibali.
The man was referred to the Judicial Authority for the crime of inciting violence (art. 414 paragraph 3 of the criminal code)