First interrogation for Benno Neumair at the trial for the double murder of parents Laura Perselli and Peter Neumair , which took place on January 4, 2021.
The young confessed offender, during the river hearing in the Court of Assizes in Bolzano, has raised his voice several times to the point of being invited twice by the president of the court, judge Carlo Busato, to remain calm.
But he did not want to open his mouth on the dynamics and motive of the double murder to "forget everything" and to defend himself "from the obscene media process" and the risk of being targeted by other prisoners in prison.
“He talked about his mother and father as if they were two strangers, thus killing them again,” commented his sister Madè.
For the purposes of the trial, the depositions made during the investigation phase, a year and a half ago, when Benno confessed the double crime, will still be acquired. Prosecutors Igor Secco and Federica Jovene, and the plaintiffs lawyers Carlo Bertacchi and Elena Valenti, also asked Benno for explanations on the various misdirection attempts made immediately after the double crime. Again, the reply was a series of “I don't know” and “I don't remember.” Any contradictions or inaccuracies, he said, were “mere coincidences”.
However, he claimed to have tried in one case to sidetrack the investigation: when he provided the investigators, who a few days after the disappearance of Laura and Peter were looking for their bodies, a washed jacket to deflect the smell of molecular dogs . "I did it on purpose," admitted Benno. For the defense, led by the lawyer Flavio Moccia, today's testimony shows that "Benno is sick". But the prosecutor and the civil parties do not think so, according to which Benno "would suffer from a narcissistic personality disorder, but certainly not such as to make him incapable of understanding and willing".
(Unioneonline / D)