Milan, 11 Nov. (Adnkronos) – “To think that Impagnatiello has planned a diabolical plan is excessive given that he commits gross, egregious errors which, in the event of premeditation, he would not have committed”. This was stated by Giulia Gerardini who, together with her colleague Samanta Barbaglia, defends Alessandro Impagnatiello accused of the aggravated murder of his partner Giulia Tramontana, pregnant with little Thiago. The defense rejects the hypothesis that the accused had the intention of staging Giulia’s suicide, as well as that he used the rat poison to induce the abortion or that he did online research to hide his responsibilities. When the “castle of lies” disappears, he sees himself unmasked, but “there is an absolute occasionality in the crime”, as if “fate had set a trap for him” with the meeting between the two women. It is on the alleged insistence of the other woman, the colleague with whom she had a parallel relationship, that the lawyers insist on explaining the motive for the crime, but above all to underline that the aggravating circumstance of premeditation “is not proven”. The motive “is the unmasking, the resulting trauma, the cold anger, the destructive emotion that led him to commit the crime”. Giulia’s killing “was not premeditated, but was a decision taken on the spot. She carried out clumsy actions, as if Alessandro wanted to be discovered when he dragged her up the stairs and hid her in the garage” adds the lawyer Barbaglia. For the defense there is no aggravating circumstance of frivolous motives or even cruelty, although there is an “aberrant number” of shots, eleven of which took vital parts. “There are 37 stab wounds in total but it is a unitary conduct, the blows follow one another continuously and for this reason there is no cruelty, Giulia did not react, she did not defend herself, she had no time and the cause of death was a shock sudden haemorrhagic, she lost so much blood very quickly that she died immediately” explains the lawyer Barbaglia. The defense asks for generic mitigating circumstances because “he is the one who says where the body is hidden, he made a modest contribution and on May 31 he had a collaborative attitude by handing over the car and his mobile phone, without deleting chats and history, showing that he was not a strategist. He wanted to turn himself in, he did everything to get caught. He is a miserable man who found an aberrant way to resolve a situation that was unsustainable for him.” Impagnatiello “is crushed by a sense of guilt, there is a seed of redemption in him”. The two lawyers therefore believe that there is only the aggravating circumstance of cohabitation for Impagnatiello “who fell under the weight of his lies” and therefore ask for the minimum sentence.
