He asked for the arrest of his lover's ex-husband: The CSM sanctions the Neapolitan magistrate

The disciplinary section of the Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSM) has established a sanction of 2 months of loss of seniority for the magistrate Vincenzo Ferrigno (former PM first at the Torre Annunziata Prosecutor's Office and then in Naples) in relation to events that occurred while he was on the staff of the Florence Public Prosecutor's Office as a deputy prosecutor. This was decided at Palazzo dei Marescialli, in Rome, the seat of the self-governing body of the judiciary. In 2015, Ferrigno had requested house arrest for a doctor with whose ex-wife he had started a romantic relationship. The woman had reported her husband for having threatened to kill her and the case was assigned to the PM Vincenzo Ferrigno. The magistrate twice requested the case be closed and both times the investigating judge rejected the requests. Ferrigno then, during the course of the investigations, had the opportunity to meet the two spouses and thus a relationship with the woman began. In this next phase the magistrate requested the doctor's house arrest.
The prosecutor has already been sent for trial for this story and will go to trial on September 18 on charges of abuse of office (the charges of forgery and corruption were dropped), after the complaint filed by the ex-husband, based on his investigations with a private investigator. In some videos, broadcast by the program Le Iene on February 12, 2017, the wife can be seen entering the house of the magistrate Ferrigno late in the evening and sneaking out the next morning, very early. During a stormy separation, the woman reports her husband for mistreatment, twice. The case is assigned to the prosecutor Ferrigno who, not believing the charges are well-founded, twice requests the case be closed. The GIP, the judge for preliminary investigations, however, asks the prosecutor to carry out further investigations.

It is during these “investigations” that Ferrigno gets to know the two spouses better. He especially gets to know his wife better, with whom he is said to have started a relationship. He certainly changes his mind completely in 2016: he asks for the request for archiving to be revoked and for her husband to be placed under house arrest. What made him change his mind? “I never hit her, I’m not a violent type,” her husband, a doctor, explained to Le Iene. In the meantime, the file on him for mistreatment was transferred to another magistrate and the doctor was sent for trial anyway.