The sister-in-law of Alessandro Impagnatiello, wife of the brother of the former bartender who killed his seven-months-pregnant girlfriend Giulia Tramontano in May 2023, has been ordered by the Civil Court of Milan to pay approximately €25,000 in compensation to the victim's family. A couple of months after the crime, Impagnatiello's sister-in-law was the one who sold and registered the car he killed himself in, in an attempt to make him appear penniless and thus avoid paying compensation to the victim's family. The news was first reported online by Corriere della Sera.
Impagnatiello's move to sell the car to his sister-in-law was, according to the court, intended to "reduce the former bartender's assets" and make him appear penniless , also with a view to compensation in the murder trial, in which he was sentenced to life imprisonment in the first and second instance. Judge Francesco Pipicelli sided with Tramontano's family, represented by lawyers Rosario Santella and Giovanni Cacciapuoti, who argued that the car had been sold to Impagnatiello's sister-in-law solely with the aim of "removing the aforementioned asset from the creditors' claims of Giulia Tramontano's family." The femicide had hidden and transported the young woman's body in that car.
"Giulia's family was concerned that this car, in which the body had been hidden and transported, should no longer be driven freely, since it had not been seized by the Prosecutor's Office," explained Giovanni Cacciapuoti, lawyer representing Giulia Tramontano's family. Giulia's parents, brother, and sister, as the lawyer clarified, filed this "civil action to revoke the sale of the car"—with the first hearing held last November while the first-degree criminal trial for the murder was concluding—to prevent the car "from being driven freely, also because the Prosecutor's Office at the time had only ordered the seizure of the rear floorboard, where traces of blood had been found." Currently, there is no trace of that car because, as also shown in the civil case documents, Impagnatiello's sister-in-law and brother reported it stolen last October, even though the insurance company subsequently failed to cover the theft.
(Unioneonline)