The Turin prosecutor Alessandro Aghemo appealed against the acquittal of Alex Pompa, the 18-year-old boy who on 30 April 2020 killed his violent father in the family home in Collegno (Turin).
"There is no evidence of a fight between Giuseppe Pompa and his son Alex, but only of the parents' attempt to escape the aggression". And "there is no proof that the father had managed to arm himself, but only that he had managed to take possession of one of the knives held" by the boy, "immediately losing possession due to the intervention of the other son" Loris.
These are the reasons with which the prosecutor presented an appeal. On April 30, 2020, Alex killed his father Giovanni with 34 stab wounds with six different kitchen knives after his father, in what was yet another furious outburst, lashed out at his mother.
For the Court of Assizes, which cleared him last November, it was self-defense. For the prosecution, who had asked for a 14-year sentence, the judges assessed the evidence "incorrectly" by offering a reconstruction of the incident "completely detached from what emerged in the trial, the result of a review of the evidential compendium dominated by a preconceived thesis of the innocence of the accused ".
(Unioneonline / L)
