Bologna, 2 May 2024 – For the second time, Giampaolo Amato, a 64-year-old ophthalmologist accused of killing his mother-in-law Giulia Tateo and his wife Isabella Lsala with a cocktail of drugs 22 days apart in October 2021, took the stand in court. Spontaneous statements in which he responded to the accusations made against him by his wife’s uncle, Nicola Tateo (civil plaintiff as Giulia’s brother), a witness at the trial against Amato yesterday. “Isabella confided in me that Giampaolo felt inferior to her because he didn’t own any real estate,” said her uncle, who also reported a circumstance that occurred a few weeks before the death of her sister Giulia: “I asked her if she still took sleeping pills , she laughingly replied that she had been sleeping very well since she took the medicine that Giampaolo gave her.”
“I have never administered treatments outside of my ophthalmology expertise to my mother-in-law – thundered the accused in the courtroom – and the relationship with her was excellent, she also gave me important confidences, which I have always kept to myself; she had asked me. That I envied the my wife’s possessions? Absolutely not, I have never been interested in money, I have always had what I needed and that was enough for me. In my life I have never known envy, hatred or boredom. since I have been unjustly imprisoned”. In fact, he has been in prison on charges of double murder for more than a year.
