Alessandro Impagnatiello was fully capable of understanding and willing when, on May 27, 2023, he killed his girlfriend Giulia Tramontano, 29 years old, with 37 stab wounds in their home in Senago, in the Milan area.

No mental defect, neither total nor partial, have established the forensic psychiatrist Pietro Ciliberti and the medical examiner Gabriele Rocca in the expert report ordered and filed in the trial against the 31-year-old former barman.

The defense argued that Impagnatiello suffered from a “paranoid” personality disorder .

And instead, according to the experts, " there are no elements to believe that at the time of the incident there was a partial or total mental defect" .

Alessandro Impagnatiello has "narcissistic and psychopathic personality traits", but not psychopathological ones , he reconstructed the dynamics of the murder of his girlfriend Giulia Tramontano with "full lucidity, without confusion" and, according to his logic, he could not "accept the unmasking" of his double life and manifested "an angry dimension" , the experts write.

Not even from the interviews did "elements emerge that allow us to hypothesize psychological anomalies". Impagnatiello was also "able to adapt to life in prison, except for an anxious-depressive disagreement". Those narcissistic and psychopathic traits, the experts write, configure his "way of being in the world, where he had stable sentimental stories, work adaptation and ability to fit in" . Not even in relation to the murder and to that period did he show "persecutory anguish and delusional beliefs". Experts who do not agree at all with the defense consultants who speak of "serious paranoia".

According to experts, the 31-year-old has shown an " intolerance to emotional loss, understood as a narcissistic wound due to abandonment experienced as an offense and at the same time as a humiliation ". And at the same time "full awareness" of what he did and justified his actions as "out of control" in the relationship with Giulia, for him "a harbinger of stress" .

Psychopathic traits are manifested, we read further, in " dominating the other and manipulating events ". His personality traits, the experts conclude, "were not indifferent to the genesis and dynamics" of the crime, they were the "premise", but " there were no psychopathological alterations ".

The body of Giulia, who was seven months pregnant , was found four days after the crime in a cavity near a garage.

Impagnatiello, accused of voluntary homicide aggravated by premeditation, cruelty, futile motives and having killed his partner, of non-consensual termination of pregnancy and of concealment of a corpse, risks a life sentence , after it has now also been ascertained that he is not mentally defective.

"I wanted to believe I was crazy, but I don't think I am," the 31-year-old said during questioning in court before the judges of the Court of Assizes of Milan who ordered the expert assessment in the hearing on June 10 and which will be discussed in court on October 21. "I was a vessel completely saturated with lies and falsehoods," he added.

The former bartender of a luxury hotel in Milan was leading a parallel life, also carrying on a relationship with another young woman, who on the day Giulia was killed had met, a few hours earlier, with the 29-year-old, as emerged from the investigation.

The prosecutors have always maintained the defendant's full capacity to understand and want, as have Giulia's family members. The psychiatrist Raniero Rossetti, however, who had signed the defense report , had emphasized how the former barman felt like a " chess player who had to keep all the movements of the chessboard under control ", through lies and deceptions to the two women. "He aimed to suppress the fetus, which represented a variable in his chessboard. What he could not control was precisely the unborn child" , the defense consultant had written.

(Online Union)

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