MILAN. Life in prison for Mahmuod Ridha, a 53-year-old Tunisian who on the morning of September 15 last year in Piazza San Rocco in Como with 25 stab wounds killed Don Roberto Malgesini, the priest of the last. The sentence of life imprisonment was pronounced by Valeria Costi, president of the Court of Assizes, at the end of a council chamber which lasted less than two hours, as if to confirm that no doubt has flashed in the robes, but above all by the judges popular. The 53-year-old Moroccan was found guilty of the crime of voluntary homicide, with the aggravating circumstance of premeditation. No extenuating circumstances have been recognized to the killer.
Como, the trial for the murder of Don Roberto Malgesini begins: he was the “priest of the last”
MARCO MARELLI
The Court accepted the request, which came after an indictment lasted a couple of years, of the public prosecutor Massimo Astori, who over ten years ago had also represented the accusation in the trial for the Erba massacre. ended with the life imprisonment of Rosa Bazzi and Olindo Romano. An indictment at times dramatic. Like when Astori, retracing the tragic morning of September 15 last year, showed the video of the cameras in via Milano that record the arrival of Mahmoud Ridha and the moment in which with the armed hand of a knife he lowers himself on the priest who is preparing touring the city to deliver breakfast to the homeless. Strong emotion when the prosecution told of the artifact number 3 recovered at the scene of the crime: the bloodied wooden cross of Don Roberto. The magistrate focused on the personal history of the murderer, who arrived in Italy about thirty years ago, the six expulsion decrees (the last of which should have been discussed on the morning when the crime was committed). Astori then reiterated that we are not in front of a person unable to understand and want (thesis reaffirmed by the defender in the defense pleading), but of a man with delusions of persecution: “ The murderer acted knowing what he was doing ” . Don Roberto’s murderer was also sentenced to pay damages: one euro.
Como: a square named after Don Roberto, “the priest of the last”
marco marelli
As had asked the lawyer Maurizio Passerini, lawyer of the priest’s brothers. A very short speech, a few minutes of great emotional intensity: ” Don Roberto’s brothers took part in a civil action only to testify their presence next to their brother, not to leave him alone as he had been left by others in the exercise of his activity ‘ ‘. Words like stones. Don Roberto, together with other volunteers, was fined a couple of years ago for bringing breakfast to the homeless.
The lawyer turned to the murderer: “ Spare yourself, the hateful designer of this crime, an apology: they are not needed (” I have nothing to apologize for, the Moroccan replied, ed): not needed. He has already been forgiven by his victim, so spare all his strength because he will have to answer his conscience as soon as possible ”.