"There wasn't a precise moment when I decided to kill my father. I don't know what happened that night, it was a moment I don't remember. I know I didn't do a good thing and I'm sorry if I could. go back I'd rather die myself ".

Alex Pompa, the 20-year-old acquitted because "the fact does not constitute a crime" after stabbing his father to defend his mother and brother from the violence of his parent, spoke last night at Porta a Porta.

"I have never stopped loving my father - he said - but with him it has always been difficult, since I was little and I have experienced his violent gestures towards me, my brother and especially my mother".

Again: "My brother and I from being my father's children at a certain point, when his obsession with my mom got worse, we became his obstacles because he could not possess, oppress and subdue her as he would have liked".

On the episode of April 30, which will change his life forever. He speaks of an "escalation of threats and insults" and claims he has no memories. "I was completely in shock."

A psychiatric report had established that Alex was partially unable to understand at the time of the murder due to a PTSD caused precisely by the family nightmare lived at home. He and his brother Loris alternated, at least one of them had to be present in the house to protect his mother.

On 30 April Giuseppe Pompa had spied on his wife at work and had seen a colleague put a hand on her shoulder, which made him go into a rage. He called her 101 times on the phone and as soon as she returned home "he attacked her, he seemed possessed and we thought he would kill us all," the two brothers said.

(Unioneonline / L)