Antonio Gozzini killed his wife out of a “delusion of jealousy”

12/10/2020 Italy



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For the prosecutor was to be sentenced tolife sentence because he has “acted out of revenge“However, for the defense, the accused had to be acquitted of inability to understand and love. Between these two extremes, the analogous thesis of the Public Ministry consultant and the expert part, who speak ofdelirium of jealousy».

On the basis of these opinions, the Brescia Court of Assistances, chaired by Roberto Spanò, has paid out from the position of aggravated murder of premeditation Antonio Gozzini, retired teacher of 80 years who a year ago, in an apartment in the north of Brescia, killed his 62-year-old wife Cristina Maioli, high school teacher. After two hours in the Council Chamber, the judges agreed that the elders “has a total vice of mind».

The crime of a year ago in early October. The man stunned the victim with three hammer blows to the head, While sleeping; then stabbed her in the throat and, after watching her for hours, he also tried to commit suicide.

“There was no particular reason why I decided to kill my wife. I only know that he was terribly ill: in depression these things can happen ”, the man had said during the interrogation in which he confessed to the murder.

Depression had accompanied Gozzini’s life for years, which, according to psychiatric investigations carried out during his detention in prison, he had recently manifested strong jealousy towards his wife.

The old man was convinced that he had been betrayed, which was never verified; a “true delusion of jealousy”, writes the consultant of the Prosecutor’s Office in the report in which he assures that Gozzini could have participated in the trial, but that at the time of the murder he suffered from a delusional disorder “as to totally exclude the ability to understand and want».

For the prosecutor Claudia Passalacqua who already announced appeal, the 80-year-old man committed the murder “in revenge because his wife wanted him hospitalized for his depression. It is dangerous to convey the message that at that time I did not understand and wanted because I was 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.

«We are satisfied because the sentence expresses what arose in the trial where, a case more unique than rare, both our consultant and that of the Prosecutor’s Office established Gozzini’s incapacity of understanding and will ”, commented lawyer Jacopo Barzellotti, an 80-year-old lawyer. that he never attended the trial hearings.

The one in Brescia is a sentence meant to make people argue like the one pronounced last year by the Bologna Court of Appeal, which reduced Michele Castaldo’s sentence for the murder of Olga Matei from 30 to 16 years, linked to him for a few weeks relationship. For the judges, an “overwhelming emotional and passionate storm”, triggered by jealousy, helped mitigate responsibility for the femicide.

«Leaves us in awe“, Comments the president of the DiRe Network Antonella Veltri, who in relation to the Brescia sentence speaks of” sexist prejudices and a patriarchal view gender roles, by which the husband-master can “punish” his wife, in the Italian judicial system ». Pd Senator Valeria Valente promises to investigate the decision of the Brescia judges in the Femicide Commission, while Pd Senator Mauro Laus “horrifies like a man.”