By IANS/AKI,
Rome : An Italian is suing his wife’s lover in one of the first such cases in the country where a husband was seeking monetary compensation for moral damage caused by an extra-marital affair.
The plaintiff in the central Italian city of Spoleto claimed the affair caused his wife to have “obsessive behaviour that ruined family life”.
He is seeking 600,0000 euros (around $783,000) in damages — 200,000 euros for himself and 200,000 for each of his two children.
The accused lover said he has never been involved with the married woman, and even if he was, “her heart and libido were legally free to wander from the bonds of matrimony”.
“My client denies being the woman’s lover,” said the lawyer of accused home-wrecker.
“And even if it was true, she is not the property of her husband. And there is no law keeping a man from going to bed with a married woman,” the lawyer said.