Massimiliano Farci still declares himself innocent .
Accused for the murder of his partner Speranza Ponti , originally from Uri, which took place in Alghero in December 2019 , the 55-year-old from Assemini today in the Court of Assizes of the Court of Sassari reiterated what he had already said on 10 May before the questions of the deputy prosecutors Angelo Beccu and Beatrice Giovannetti.
On the morning of December 6, 2019 - he said, answering the questions of the plaintiff lawyers, Stefano Carboni and Edoardo Morette, and of his own defender Daniele Solinas - he found his partner hanged at the door of the bedroom , in the apartment they shared.
Farci and Ponti had met on social media, she continued, when she lived in Liguria. Then they had formed a more intimate relationship by chatting on a video call until the meeting in Alghero , where he was serving a life sentence in a semi-liberal regime - he had been convicted of the crime of the Red Lotus, the killing in 1999 of the entrepreneur Renato Baldussi of San Sperate - and where the woman had come on vacation specifically to meet him, before deciding to take home and move to Alghero.
"I always told Speranza the whole truth, she knew I was sentenced to life in prison for murder," he added. He then confirmed that he had decided to bury her on the hill on the outskirts of Alghero because that was a place she loved , and that he had decided to hide her death from everyone, telling friends and relatives that Ponti had left. The trial - Farci is accused of killing her to take possession of her savings - will continue on June 21 with the depositions of the defense witnesses .
(Unioneonline / D)
