With a defensive plea in first person, Claudio Dettori spoke today in the courtroom before the Court of Assizes of Sassari. The 24-year-old is accused of having hammered out Antonio Fara, a 47-year-old bartender, found dead on 23 April last year in his home in via Livorno in Sassari.
The sentence is expected today. The prosecutor asked for a life sentence .
Dettori obtained the opportunity to issue spontaneous statements and challenged the prosecutor Giovanni Porcheddu and the plaintiff lawyer, Simone Pisano, point by point, as well as the carabinieri. He examined the testimonies released by investigators and experts, the scientific findings and every element that has emerged so far to his detriment.
"It is ridiculous that today I am still under kidnapping, I ask for acquittal and compensation for the damage suffered ", he said, addressing the judges, and accusing the military of having implemented a long time ago, long before the murder. persecution against him .
The defense attorney, Bruno conti, asked for acquittal for the murder charge ("for not having committed the fact") and for the robbery, as "the fact does not exist". In the alternative, the lawyer asked that in the event of a conviction to his client the generic extenuating circumstances (young age, difficult situation and social exclusion) be recognized and that aggravating circumstances such as torture and cruelty, and connection between the crimes of murder and robbery.
