Licence to lie for Italian women

Licence to lie for Italian women

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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.

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honour? what honour? going about in immoral acts was fine, and when deeds were done it was/is ok to abuse the 'justice' in this way?

wheres real justice gone to??

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reply to post by Attari


Well in the US, you can't give 'false testimony' unless you are sworn in and under oath.

That sounds a bit of a reach even for Italy.

They're making a law to cover not following procedure. Sheesh.

This one does sound some what strange. If adultery was committed there is already no honer. The saying its ok to lie to authorities about it means crimes may go unsolved, since some of the evidence can now not be used. This sounds like its going to be bad the hole way around.

The Court of Cassation, which is largely staffed by elderly male appeal judges, has in the past issued a number of controversial judgements.

It once gave a ruling, later rescinded after protests from women's groups, that a woman could not be raped by definition if she was wearing tight jeans, since the jeans could only be removed with her consent.

Apparently Viagra has other unreported neurological side-effects.