The second-instance trial against Francesco Douglas Fadda , the 47-year-old from Sorso sentenced to life imprisonment on 15 March for the femicide of his 41-year-old partner of Czech origin Zdenka Krejcikova, who died after being wounded with a knife in a bar in Sorso on February 15, 2020 .
Fadda, assisted by the lawyer Lorenzo Galisai, at the opening of the hearing declared that he did not want to be filmed by cameras and video cameras and asked the court to remove the journalists from the courtroom: "I was mistreated by the press," he said.
The Court, presided over by judge Salvatore Marinaro, rejected the request: "The hearing is public and it is right to guarantee the right to report", explained the president.
Then the Court's report on the facts was read. In the next hearings there will be interventions by the Attorney General, by civil party lawyers, Teresa Pes (for the victim's mother) and Pietro Diaz (for the 13-year-old daughters of the killed woman) and by the defense.
In the first instance, the Court of Sassari had convicted Fadda of voluntary homicide aggravated by premeditation, committed with cruelty against a person with whom the perpetrator was linked by a relationship, as well as resistance, torture, illegal carrying of a knife and kidnapping .
According to the investigators, on Saturday 15 February 2020 Zdenka Krejcikova, after an argument with her partner, had escaped from the house in via Tiziano to take refuge in the bar next door, where he had reached her and wounded her with a kitchen knife and then loaded her into the car together with the daughters and run away to Ossi, abandoning her dying in an apartment in via Spinoza, near the medical guard. The victim had been rescued in an ambulance, but attempts to save her life had been in vain.
Fadda has always declared himself innocent, claiming that his partner had injured herself by slipping and falling on the knife she was holding.
(Unioneonline/D)
