The femicide of Angelica Salis, killed at the age of 60 in September 2021 by her husband Paolo Randaccio in Quartucciu , could end before the Constitutional Court. This is what was requested in the courtroom by the prosecutor Nicola Giua Marassi, deeming it " constitutionally illegitimate" to foresee, as the current law does, the impossibility of resorting to the shortened procedure and to grant extenuating circumstances if the crime involves two spouses.
A prohibition that prevents , in the assessment of the specific case, from inflicting "a proportionate penalty" on the basis of the single episode. Because "it is illogical" to believe that "the murder of a spouse is always more serious than others".
There is a difference between a crime committed by a violent man who for years beaten his wife and then killed her and a femicide, as in this case, which resulted in yet another quarrel triggered by the woman , who had been suffering for some time. of depression (with several suicide attempts) and was the protagonist of outbursts of anger that resulted in physical violence, as well as verbal, towards the partner of a lifetime.
Thus, at the end of the indictment before the Assize Court of Cagliari, the prosecutor hypothesized two endings : he asked the Court to raise the question of the unconstitutionality of the law and, in the case, to sentence Randaccio to 12 years; conversely, if the judges were to reject the proposal, the penalty suggested by the investigating magistrate would be 21 years. The minimum expected in these cases in a range that reaches life imprisonment. A request to which the defense lawyer Andrea Nanni joined, arguing it. The decision will come in November.
