She had been obsessing her dancing teacher for four years every day with hundreds of phone calls and sms. But not only. The woman walked around with a T-shirt with written on it “I love…” and the name of the young dancer. The woman was arrested by the police for stalking. The incident happened in Palermo there the police arrested a 29-year old woman, D.G., from Palermo. The investigation started after the dancer reported the woman to the police last May. He said that the last few years had become a nightmare because of the woman he had met at the gym where the man teaches Caribbean dancing. From that moment on the woman started to send several sms to start a sentimental relationship.

But his denial was useless. The girl continued sending sms, mms and calling him. She was also present in his work place. In February 2009 he received 200 phone calls and 1,000 sms and mms. She sent pictures of herself naked. So the dancer decided to temporarily leave Palermo, but the woman hired a private investigator to discover where he was. When the man returned to Palermo, the woman started to have a more violent behaviour beating him and calling him a “criminal”. The man, tired of the situation, went back to the police, and finally the woman was arrested.

Translated by Chiara Nunnari from John Milton Institute