18-year-old Riccardo Chiarioni was partially incompetent when, on the night between August 31st and September 1st, still a minor, in a villa in Paderno Dugnano (Milan), he stabbed his father, mother and 12-year-old brother to death.
This was established by the psychiatric assessment of Franco Martelli, ordered by the investigating judge for minors in Milan Laura Margherita Pietrasanta. The partial defect of mind, if recognized for the 18-year-old defended by the lawyer Amedeo Rizza, in the abbreviated trial that is to begin, would lead to a reduction of the sentence. A defense consultancy, however, has ascertained for him a total incapacity.
Last October, at the request of the defense, the investigating judge, also following the investigations of the prosecutors for minors Sabrina Ditaranto and Elisa Salatino and the Carabinieri, had entrusted Franco Martelli, a specialist in psychiatry and clinical criminology, with the task of carrying out an evidentiary incident on the young man, detained in the juvenile prison in Florence . The expert report was filed on March 14 and will be discussed, between the parties and consultants, before the judge in a hearing in April.
The defense also appointed its own expert, psychiatrist Marco Mollica, who in his report concluded that the defendant was totally insane. Both reports, as well as that of the Juvenile Prosecutor's Office, will be included in the abbreviated trial (with a discount on the sentence), which has yet to be set, after the prosecutors requested and obtained an immediate trial in recent days.
The massacre
The young man had stabbed his father, mother and 12-year-old brother to death after his father's birthday party had taken place at home that evening. The charge of aggravated voluntary homicide, including premeditation, against the 18-year-old also reports the impressive number of stab wounds, 108 in total, much higher than what had emerged from the initial autopsy findings. Most of them inflicted on his little brother.
Chiarioni, according to Martelli, wanted to take refuge in his fantasy world of immortality and to reach it in his mind he was convinced he had to free himself of all affections. He lived between reality and fantasy, the latter not intended as delirium, but as a refuge. "I really wanted to erase my entire life from before," the boy had stated in his statement, speaking of his "malaise" that had lasted for some time, but which had worsened especially in the summer, and saying he felt "alien" to the world. "I wanted to be immortal, by killing them I could live freely," he had said again, trying to explain a massacre without a motive. In the reports of the psychologists who dealt with him, attached to the investigation documents, it was highlighted that the boy had spoken of a "competitive climate" that existed in the family, but also in sports and more generally in the whole of society.
A "relational climate - it says - perceived as critical and competitive". He described his last summer holidays, with family and friends, as "serene", or at least that's what he said. In the family, he explained further in the interviews, "if there was a pretext to argue, I tried not to do it". Apparently, therefore, he had no reason to exterminate the family. "It was the night of the party that I thought of doing it", he said in front of the judge who had questioned him after the arrest.
(Online Union)
