‘Covid Stress’: Life Sentence Cancelled for Femicide

(ANSA) – ROME, JULY 21 – The choice of the Court docket of Cassation is already sparking bitter controversy, even when the annulment with postponement of the life sentence for a femicide is restricted to the request for an evaluation of mitigating circumstances. Specifically, the judges of benefit didn’t consider that the assassin was “harassed” because of Covid. The sentence issues the killing of Lorena Quaranta, a younger college pupil from the province of Agrigento who was about to graduate in Drugs and Surgical procedure, by her boyfriend, the Calabrian nurse Antonio De Tempo. The femicide came about in the home the place the couple lived collectively in Furci Siculo, within the Messina space, on March 31, 2020, through the first lockdown part. On the peak of an argument, the nurse strangled his companion and after a suicide try known as the police, confessing to the crime that, in line with him, was attributable to an alleged “state of tension” attributable to the pandemic. And that is exactly the facet round which the Supreme Court docket’s determination revolves. “It have to be thought-about – we learn within the causes – that the judges of benefit haven’t absolutely verified whether or not, given the specificity of the context, it might, and to what extent, be attributed to the defendant for not having “successfully tried to counteract” the state of tension to which he was prey and, in parallel, whether or not the supply of the discomfort, evidently represented by the arrival of the pandemic emergency with all that it has decided within the life of every individual and, subsequently, additionally of the protagonists of the story, and, much more, the contingent problem of remedying it, represent components affecting the measure of legal legal responsibility”. The trial will now return to the Court docket of Assizes of Enchantment of Messina, the place the Lawyer Normal had already requested the granting of mitigating circumstances. The anti-violence heart Una di noi, chaired by the lawyer Cettina Miasi, intervenes within the matter. “Studying the explanations – she writes – leaves us shocked and deeply alarmed for the safety of all girls like Lorena”. Bipartisan criticism of the choice of the Cassation additionally comes from politicians, with the parliamentarians of Fratelli d’Italia Alfredo Antoniozzi, Alessandro Urzì and Cinzia Pellegrino, who say they’re “astonished” and converse of a “chilling sentence” whereas the deputy of the Democratic Occasion De Biase manufacturers it as “horrible” information and the president of Azione Mara Carfagna expresses “dismay”. (ANSA).