Prosecutor Alessandro Aghemo asked for 14 years in prison for Alex Pompa, the 20-year-old student tried in Turin on charges of killing his father to defend his mother during yet another family dispute.
The magistrate
said he was "forced" to propose such a high sentence and asked
the Corte di Assise to raise a question of constitutional legitimacy
on the rule that prevents the prevalence of numerous extenuating circumstances from being granted. The murder was committed in Collegno (Turin) on 30 April 2020.
The victim, Giuseppe Pompa, 52, was described as "obsessive, aggressive, harassing and problematic". His wife, Maria Caiola, said in the courtroom that in the hours before the murder she had been called "101 times" by him out of jealousy, adding that over the months she and the children recorded her constant outbursts "because we thought that there would have killed ".
Alex
, who the same prosecutor defined
"a good boy, serious and studious
", on April 30, 2020 he intervened in the quarrel and struck his father 34 slashes with 6 different knives. An expert opinion defined the young man suffering from a post-traumatic syndrome caused by paternal behavior. According to the prosecutor, the harassment and harassment were" emphasized " "during the trial." Joseph - he observed - behaved in an unjustifiable way, but he paid with his life. A higher sentence than he would have deserved ". The magistrate, however, added that" he was the architect of his son's suffering "and called into question the generic extenuating circumstances and the provocation 'by accumulation'." But the code - he concluded - prevents me from asking for the extenuating circumstances to prevail over the aggravating circumstance of the family relationship and therefore a lower penalty.Judges should evaluate whether this rule is reasonable ".
