He poisoned a plate of salmon penne prepared for dinner with sodium nitrite, killing his stepfather. In the same way he also tried to kill his mother, who was saved after hospitalization.
The Assize Court of Bologn a sentenced to 30 years in prison Alessandro Leon Asoli, 20, responsible for the murder of Loreno Grimaldi, 57, who died on April 15, 2021 in Ceretolo di Casalecchio di Reno, and the attempted murder of his mother Monica Marchioni.
Prosecutor Rossella Poggioli had asked for a life sentence for the first crime, 18 years for the second. The sentence came after 12 hours in council chamber , the lawyers left the court without comment.
Three years of probation were also inflicted on Asoli at the end of the sentence: a compensation of half a million was also decided upon to the mother of the victim and a provisional provision of 750 thousand euros to the mother of the accused.
The young man was not present in the courtroom. Instead, there was the father, Davide Asoli, who believes in the innocence of his son .
The defense is that Alessandro Leon did not commit the murder, but that it was an attempted suicide by his mother , who was deeply depressed, who also killed her husband, with whom she was in crisis.
The prosecutor instead challenged the multiple murder of the boy: premeditation, abject motives and use of poisonous substances bought on the internet. The motive, according to the indictment, was the inheritance .
(Unioneonline / L)