Stalking the symbolic headmistress of Caivano, caretaker on trial

While the spotlight of the television limelight exalts her courage, a painful personal affair is back in the spotlight for Eugenia Carfora, the headmistress of the Morano di Caivano institute on which the RAI fiction starring Luisa Ranieri is based, which in the first episode, aired last night, won over the public (27% share for a total of 4 million 814 thousand viewers).

This is the case involving the former school aide Giuseppina Giugliano, on trial in the court of North Naples for stalking the headmistress Carfora. Giugliano had become a media case at the beginning of 2023, for having chosen to commute to work every day from Naples to the 'Boccioni' high school in Milan; at the time she justified her choice on the grounds of her inability to meet the expenses of a permanent stay in the Milanese city. Initial solidarity was soon followed by mistrust, with the discovery that those trips had not in fact been so frequent and that the young woman had taken a long period of sick leave. A few months later however, in November of the same year, life as a long-distance commuter came to an end, as Giugliano was assigned, albeit temporarily, to the school in Caivano, Morano, where Carfora is headmistress.

According to the investigation based on the stalking complaint, the problems with the caretaker began in 2024 with the formal complaint to Giugliano of prolonged absences from work, unjustified according to Carfora: hence the procedure that led to the caretaker's dismissal. At that point, Giuseppina Giugliano began to persecute the headmistress with e-mails and messages via social networks. The persecutory behaviour then continued even when a restraining order was issued with a ban on approaching the headmistress's premises and communicating by telematic means or with messages. Faced with repeated violations of the order, the North Naples Public Prosecutor's Office requested and obtained in recent months the arrest of the caretaker, who ended up under house arrest. But Giugliano did not give up, and continued to persecute the headmistress, so much so that in October she ended up in prison for a couple of months; she was then released from here thanks to the re-examination, which ordered that she be put under house arrest again, where the woman (defended by the lawyer Corrado Coppola) is still waiting for the stalking trial to be decided (next hearing on 23 February). Giuseppina Giugliano is also facing a civil case, which is at the second stage of proceedings, for dismissal (in this trial she is defended by lawyer Veronica Ascolese).