Murder Vannini, Ciontoli cries at the trial: “I ask forgiveness, I am the only responsible”

“I ask forgiveness for what I have committed and also for what I have not committed. I know that I am not the victim but the only one responsible for this tragedy”, says Antonio Ciontoli, accused in the second trial for the murder of Marco Vannini, during of spontaneous declarations. Ciontoli’s wife and two children are also charged with the trial. “My family members don’t deserve to be tried and convicted for my fault,” he added. “When the lights go out on this affair, the excruciating pain to which I condemned those who loved Marco will remain. Remorse will remain for how beautiful Marco was and how much he could still have been and that because of my mistake it will not be. Marco. it was my unrecoverable mistake. ”

Judges in the council chamber, the Ciontoli risk 14 years – The Attorney General has asked for a sentence of 14 years in prison for the voluntary murder of the whole family, in whose house Marco Vannini, the 21-year-old from Cerveteri who died in 2015, was mortally wounded. Alternatively, a sentence of 9 years and 4 months is requested for Ciontoli’s wife Maria Pizzillo and their two children, maintaining the concurrence in the murder. The appeal bis comes after the ruling of the Supreme Court which annulled the conviction for manslaughter and asked to recognize the crime of voluntary homicide with possible intent. The appeal bis came after the ruling of the Supreme Court which annulled the conviction for manslaughter and asked to recognize the crime of voluntary homicide with possible intent.

The defense of the Vannini family: “Everyone knew the severity of the wound” – To the defense, according to which the Ciontoli were “unaware of the seriousness of the injuries sustained” by the boy, he replies, for the civil party, Franco Coppi: “Ciontoli wanted to conceal the shot from his weapon. And for this he dragged the situation to a point of no return. Even though everyone knew the situation of extreme gravity”. The facts date back to May 18, 2015. The victim was taken to the first aid point in Ladispoli when his condition was by now desperate: the bullet had caused serious internal injuries, but the Ciontoli had kept the boy at home, while he was screaming, panicked, from pain. To the rescuers, called almost two hours after the shot, they had told a series of lies: that Marco had slipped, then that he had had a panic attack after a joke, that he had injured himself with a comb. The manager admitted that the boy had been hit, by mistake, by a bullet, only in front of the doctor on duty: the wound in his right armpit, at first sight, did not suggest a shot from a firearm, but he had lost over two liters of blood. The bullet had severely injured his heart and lungs, but if he had been rushed to the hospital, he would have been saved.

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