The deputy attorney general of the Cassation, Simonetta Ciccarelliasked for confirmation of the life sentence for Antonio De Pacethe nurse of the province of Vibo Valentia who on March 31, 2020 killed his girlfriend, the 27 -year -old student from Favara (Agrigento), Lorena Quaranta, to Furci Siculo, in the Messina area. According to the magistrate who represents the accusation, in the bising trial before the Supreme Court, The ‘stress from Covid’ of the accused, on which the defense insisted much, is not enough to grant generic attenuating and, therefore, a discount of sentence.
The girl’s murder took place on March 31, 2020, in the full pandemic, in the home that the couple shared for work and study since Lorena was completing the degree course in Medicine. De Pace, according to what the trial has ascertained, killed the girlfriend, strangling her and hitting her in the face with a lamp, after a dispute with never clarified and completely sudden outlines since the two, as it was rebuilt, had seen a film on Netflix together in the bed before the murder took place. The defense had insisted for a long time on the circumstance that the accused had expressed a strong stress for Covid so much that, the night before, he had thought (in an unrealistic way because the movements were not allowed) to return to the parents’ house fearing that he was infected since the girlfriend seems to be accused of the flu symptoms.
The Cassation, while establishing the definitive guilt, had ordered a second judgment on appeal To motivate the possible granting of generic mitigating people linked to these elements. Thesis that has been rejected so much that the sentence of life prison sentence has been confirmed and the story still landed before the Supreme Court which, in the evening, will issue the sentence.