The Milan Court of Assizes of Appeal sentenced Alessio Scalamanadrè to 21 years of imprisonment and his brother Simone to 14 years, confirming the first degree sentence issued by the Assizes of Genoa in February 2022. The two brothers are accused of having killed their father Pasquale, who was under investigation for mistreatment of his mother, hitting him several times with a rolling pin at the height of an argument in their home in Genoa on 10 August 2020.
Last November, the Court of Cassation annulled with postponement the second degree sentence issued by the Corte 'Genoese appeal hearing, with which Alessio was sentenced to 21 years, taking into account the decision of the Constitutional Court which had decreed the illegitimacy of the article of the Red Code which prevented generic mitigating factors from prevailing over the aggravating circumstances of a crime committed in the family context, and the appeal of the defenders who invoked the mitigating circumstance of provocation. Finally, the prosecutor's appeal against Simone's acquittal was also accepted, with the Milanese judges invited to adequately justify any new acquittal sentence.