The trial of Benno Neumair for the double murder of his parents, of which he is confessed, has begun in Bolzano.
Present in the classroom was the young man's sister, Madè, who did not want to look at him: "He never wrote to me - he explained - he didn't say he regretted it, in my opinion he is not sick. I don't know why he killed our parents . Maybe he felt a failure and was looking for a way out, I don't know. In any case, I don't feel hate and, in general, I think very little of Benno, but I don't always succeed: sometimes I have some nightmares ".
The defendant looked very different from what he did in the photos he posted on Facebook: muscular, athletic and smiling then, grim and impassive now, with glasses and a little beard.
The killing of his father Peter and his mother Laura took place on January 4th last year. "He is ill, he has a very serious disorder", said the lawyer Flavio Moccia, defender together with his colleague Angelo Polo, but the psychiatric assessment already carried out during the investigation phase established the semi-infirmity only for the first crime, that of the father , but not for the mother's.
Yesterday an abbreviated procedure was requested, which was rejected as it is not required by law for crimes punishable by life imprisonment.
The next hearings have been set for 18 and 29 March and 5 April.
(Unioneonline / ss)
