" I felt a sense of hatred ." Thus Alberto Picci, this morning in the assize court in Sassari , reports the state of mind prior to the attack committed against his parents, at the end of April 2022 in the family home of Santa Maria Coghinas . Firing the harpoon shaft against his father Giuseppe's throat at 4.30 in the morning and then planting a kitchen knife on his cheek, while his mother, Maria Giovanna Drago, was hit with a multipurpose blade.
" I have always had excellent relations with them but I felt a serious impulse inside me because I no longer have integrity", he declares, referring to an article from the European Union.
The 49-year-old is on trial for voluntary manslaughter following the death of his father on January 2, 2023, after months of hospitalization . A death that the consultants of the public prosecutor Angelo Beccu, Dr. Valentina Piredda and the anatomopathologist Francesco Serra, believe to be related to the traumatic event and with the contributing cause of some of Giuseppe Picci's heart problems.
The accused later said that he had stopped taking a psychotropic drug prescribed to him by a psychiatrist at the time. " I lost my self-control - says he, already convicted for the attempted murder of his parents at the age of 12 - and as soon as I came to my senses I called 112 ".
The defense lawyer Claudio Mastandrea requested a new psychiatric and medical evaluation for his client, a request rejected by the court presided over by Massimo Zaniboni, alongside Valentina Nuvoli. Instead, a hearing has been arranged for the psychiatrist who carried out the first exam for next week.
