He stabbed his violent father to defend his mother, acquitted: "It's not a crime"
Alex Pompa, 18, killed his father during yet another fight. The prosecutor had asked for 14 years
Acquitted because the fact does not constitute a crime.
The court of Assizes of Turin thus exonerates Alex Pompa, the twenty-year-old who stabbed his father to death to protect his mother during yet another quarrel in the family.
The event occurred on April 30, 2020 in the family home in Collegno, in the province of Turin. While his parents were arguing, Alex got in the way and hit with 34 blows, with 6 different kitchen knives, his father Giuseppe, a 52-year-old worker, who died. A legitimate defense, the thesis of Alex and his lawyer Claudio Strata.
THE PROCESS - During the trial, the victim was described as "short-tempered, aggressive, harassing and obsessive", so much so that family members had begun to secretly record his frequent outbursts: "We thought that sooner or later he would kill us", he told his wife Maria Caiola, adding that shortly before the crime she had been called by him "101 times" for reasons of "jealousy".
For prosecutor Alessandro Aghemo, who had asked for a sentence of 14 years in prison and invited the judges to consult the Constitutional Court for a question related to the impossibility of granting the prevalence of mitigating circumstances over the aggravating circumstance of the family relationship, it was a question of a voluntary murder: "There was no real danger situation" and the accused, defined by the prosecutor as "a good boy, serious and studious", "misinterpreted reality". The father "behaved in an unjustifiable way, but he paid with his life, a higher punishment than he would have deserved ”.
An approach that Strata in the course of his harangue defined "unacceptable", recalling that in 2018 the brother of the accused, Loris Pompa, wrote in a message, referring to his father, "sooner or later he kills us all".
"I want to thank this court", the comment of Alex Pompa after the acquittal: "I am dazed, I am speechless, I have to metabolize". "We have always believed in it, we know what we have lived, we have seen hell and death in the face and when we say that Alex saved our lives it is because it is so", the words of his brother Loris.
(Unioneonline / D)
