Milan, June 27, 2025 – “Twenty years, The maximum of the penalty, in abbreviated, to Riccardo Chiarioni who, in the night between 31 August and 1 September 2024, when he was still 17, in a house a Paderno Dugnano, Milanese hinterland, exterminated the family, killing with 108 stabbing father, mother and brother of 12 years.
Riccardo Chiarioni’s arrival at the Juvenile Court for the sentence
The verdict after 10 hours
The verdict of the Court of Minors, the judge for the preliminary hearings is Paola Ghezzi, He arrived later Almost ten hours of the council chamber. The boy’s partial vice of the mind has not been recognized, in the meantime he became adult, despite having been ascertained by a psychiatric report. They were Recognized the generic mitigating prevailing on the contested aggravating circumstances, including premeditation. For prosecutors, however, who had asked for 20 years, the aggravating people, Including premeditation, they had to prevail over the partial vice of mind and on the mitigating.
A photo taken from Instagram of the family, in a happy moment during a holiday
The appraisal
The appraisal by Franco Martelli, specialist in psychiatry and clinical criminology, in evidentiary accident, established that Chiarioni he was “partially unable to understand and want” when He exterminated the family. A massacre that took place a few hours after the party for Father’s 51 years old, during which no one noticed any strangeness in the behavior of the minor. The outcome of the expertise that certified the partial inability to understand and want the boy had then been confirmed in front of the investigating judge Laura Margherita For the Pietrasanta.
Riccardo Chiarioni’s defense lawyer Amedeo Rizza
“A life between reality and fantasy”
With the need highlighted “specific care”. The then 17 year old, according to what had been resulting from the psychiatric assessment, “He lived Between reality and fantasy, he wanted to take refuge in a fantastic world, which he called immortality “and, to achieve him, he was convinced” that he had to free himself with all the affections “. So it would put an end to the life of those who – in his mind – would have placed a brake a this freedom: his parents, the His little brother. A massacre dictated by a personal discomfort, not recognized, by the inability to feel part of the world, from the desire to go far and “erase all my life as before,” said the 17 years old to the experts.
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The reasons for the defense
Also the defense, Lawyer Amedeo Rizza, he had appointed a consultant, the psychiatrist Marco Mollica, who he concluded For a psychic disorder with a total vice of mind. The juvenile judges therefore established the sentence starting from the maximum penalty possible in a juvenile process, 30 yearsdiscounted by a third for the choice of the abbreviated rite. “Unacceptable” sentence for the Chiarioni lawyer which already announces the appeal.
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“Very hard verdict”
“Was A very hard sentence that I cannot accept and that I will challenge. The severity of the fact is not under discussion, but I don’t think we can get to give twenty years, the maximum of the penalty, with the recognition of two generic mitigates without the recognition of the partial mind vice also ascertained by the experts of the giudice”, dice Amedeo Rizza. And again: “When He came out of the classroom and saw relatives, my client collapsed. “The other family members, including grandparents, They have always remained close to the boy.
