At the end of 12 hours in the council chamber, he was sentenced to 30 years. This was the decision of the Bologna Court of Assizes that the young man found Alessandro Leon Asoli20, responsible for the murder of his stepfather Loreno Grimandi57, who died on April 15, 2021 in Ceretolo di Casalecchio di Reno after eating a plate of penne with salmon, prepared for dinner and poisoned with sodium nitrite, and of the attempted murder, in the same way, of his mother Monica Marchioni, who was hospitalized but then was saved. The pm Rossella Poggioli he had asked for a life sentence for the first crime, 18 years for the second.
After the sentence, late in the evening, the lawyers left the court without comment. In the device read by the President of the Court, Pier Luigi Di BariThree years of probation are also inflicted on Asoli at the end of the sentence and compensation of 500 thousand euros has been decided for the mother of the victim and 750 thousand euros in compensation for the mother of the accused.
The young man was not present, he only participated in a hearing at the beginning of the trial. Instead there was his father, Davide Asoli, who firmly believes in the innocence of her son. The parent waited for the verdict sitting next to the defender, Fulvio Toschibut the judge told him that was not his place.
The line of defense, also carried out in the replies discussed in the morning by the lawyer Toschi, is that Alessandro Leon did not commit the murder, but that it was an attempted suicide by his mother, who was strongly depressed, who also killed her husband, with which was in crisis.
The prosecutor instead challenged the multiple murder of the boy: premeditation, abject motives and use of poisonous substances, bought on the internet. The motive, according to the indictment, was the inheritance. The reasons will be filed within ninety days.