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The sentence that Matteo Valdambrini, the so-called “Devil of Montemurlo”, will have to serve at the Bollate prison in Milan, where the 27-year-old will turn himself in in the next few hours, amounts to five years, eight months and one day. His sentence was reduced by the Court of Cassation.
At first instance the young man was sentenced to six years for five of the thirteen episodes of sexual violence and acquitted of the charge of enslavement. On appeal, however, Valdambrini was found guilty of both crimes, and was therefore given a sentence of ten years and four months. Punishment softened by the Supreme Court: the charge of enslavement also absorbed the crime of sexual violence contested by the Florentine Prosecutor’s Office. The sentence was set at six years and eight months of imprisonment, reduced by the period of the precautionary measure suffered. Valdambrini in fact ended up under house arrest in June 2020, when he was arrested by the Florence flying squad.
But who is Matteo Valdambrini? Before enrolling in 2016 at the University of Florence, to be precise at the faculty of Business Economics, the boy originally from Montemurlo attended the Salvemini La Pira lower secondary school in Montemurlo and the Carlo Livi higher education institute in Prato .
He passed himself off as the “Devil” and ended up on trial accused of being the head of a sect, of having forced his followers – some of whom were minors at the time – to undergo sexual acts, as well as sending him pornographic material. The investigations against him began in 2019.
