MILAN. The death of Mehmed, aged 2 and a half years, in 2019 in Milan, at the center of the trial against his father Alija Hrustic, 26 of Croatian origin, was not a murder for the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Milan. The second instance judges overturned the life imprisonment decided in the first instance and sentenced the man to 28 years of imprisonment, redeveloping the crime of voluntary homicide into multiple ill-treatment even after the death of the victim. Torture excluded, recognized in the first instance. Hrustic was also acquitted of the aggravated mistreatment of his wife with the formula “because the fact does not exist”. The reasons in 40 days.
The facts date back to May 22, 2019. The crime was committed in a public housing in via Ricciarelli 22, on the outskirts of Milan near the San Siro stadium. Hrustic told investigators that he smoked hashish and hit the third of his four children after spending a sleepless night.