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An unexpected sentence that will surely provoke discussion that which was pronounced today in the Criminal Court of Brescia. A man who killed his wife was acquitted for being unable to understand and wanting due to a total defect of mind for what the defense attorney had called “a delusion of jealousy. A thesis that seems to set the country back decades and that, although we have to wait for reasons, seems to have been accepted by the judges. Thus ended the trial of Antonio Gozzini, 80, who a year ago killed his wife Cristina Maioli in the city, a secondary school teacher who was then watched for hours by her husband.
Husband acquitted for the feminicide of his wife, the lawyer: “He has a psychotic jealousy disorder, normal feelings have nothing to do with it”
by Ilaria Carra
The defense of the man, who was not present in the courtroom, had requested acquittal on the grounds that he was incapable of understanding and loving Gozzini at the time of the murder, as recognized by the Court, while the prosecutor Claudia Passalacqua had requested the chain perpetual, with him that man would act for revenge.
Depression had accompanied the life of Gozzini for years, who, according to psychiatric investigations carried out during his detention in prison, had recently expressed strong jealousy towards his wife. The old man was convinced that he had been betrayed, which was never verified; a “real delusion of jealousy”, writes the consultant to the Public Prosecutor’s Office in the report in which he affirms that Gozzini could have participated in the trial, but that at the time of the murder he suffered from a delusional disorder “that totally excluded the ability to understand and want “.
For the prosecutor Claudia Passalacqua, who has already announced an appeal, the 80-year-old man committed the murder “in revenge because his wife wanted him to be hospitalized for his depression. It is dangerous to convey the message that at that time he was not capable of understand and want because I am jealous, “said the magistrate in the courtroom. With the acquittal, the Criminal Court ordered the transfer of the man, currently a prisoner, to a Rems, residence for the execution of security measures.
Brescia kills his wife and attempts suicide
On October 4, 2019, Gozzini, a former school technical assistant, who was being treated for depression, first stunned his wife with a rolling pin and then hit his wife on the throat and head with a knife, and then He tried to kill himself by cutting his wrists. He had been saved by a friend he had called on the phone after the murder. In the trial phase, the attorney for the prosecution and the defense agreed that the man “was plunged into an obvious delusion of jealousy that broke his relationship with reality and determined an irrepressible murderous impulse.”
