18-year-old Riccardo Chiarioni was partially incompetent when, on the night between August 31st and September 1st, still a minor, in a villa in Paderno Dugnano (Milan), he stabbed his father, mother and 12-year-old brother to death.
This was established by the psychiatric assessment of Franco Martelli, ordered by the investigating judge for minors in Milan Laura Margherita Pietrasanta. The partial defect of mind, if recognized for the 18-year-old defended by the lawyer Amedeo Rizza, in the abbreviated trial that is to begin, would lead to a reduction of the sentence. A defense consultancy, however, has ascertained for him a total incapacity.
Last October, at the request of the defense, the investigating judge, also following the investigations of the prosecutors for minors Sabrina Ditaranto and Elisa Salatino and the Carabinieri, had entrusted Franco Martelli, a specialist in psychiatry and clinical criminology, with the task of carrying out an evidentiary incident on the young man, detained in the juvenile prison in Florence . The expert report was filed on March 14 and will be discussed, between the parties and consultants, before the judge in a hearing in April.
The defense also appointed its own expert, psychiatrist Marco Mollica, who in his report concluded that the defendant was totally insane. Both reports, as well as that of the Juvenile Prosecutor's Office, will be included in the abbreviated trial (with a discount on the sentence), which has yet to be set, after the prosecutors requested and obtained an immediate trial in recent days.
The massacre
The young man had stabbed his father, mother and 12-year-old brother to death after his father's birthday party had taken place at home that evening. The charge of aggravated voluntary homicide, including premeditation, against the 18-year-old also reports the impressive number of stab wounds, 108 in total, much higher than what had emerged from the initial autopsy findings. Most of them inflicted on his little brother.
