Rome According to the reconstruction made by the police Raimondo Gaspa he would start harassing Viola Giorginithe twenty-year-old girlfriend of another prisoner, Federico Ciontolithe same day he was released from Rebibbia prison after 22 years of imprisonment for having murdered in 2002 with 51 stab wounds a young doctor from Sassari, the urologist Monica Moretti. Gaspa is once again under accusation, this time for having persecuted a young woman whom he had noticed during her conversations with her boyfriend who was also imprisoned in Rebibbia. This new arrest of Gaspa raises many questions which are voiced by the councilor for Productive Activities and Equal Opportunities of the Capitol, Monica Lucarelli: «This case demonstrates once again how fundamental and urgent it is to strengthen protection measures for women victims of violence and stalking. We cannot allow those who have already committed such heinous crimes to continue to pose a threat to society and, above all, to women. A joint and decisive commitment from all the institutions and bodies responsible for security is necessary to ensure that incidents of this kind do not happen again. It is useless to make sentences heavier if we do not invest more in rehabilitation programs and post-prison monitoring to prevent any form of recidivism.”
Viola Giorginithe young victim of Gaspa’s stalking, she is the girlfriend of Federico Ciontolidefinitively sentenced to 9 years and 4 months in prison for complicity in voluntary homicide, of Marco Vanninithe 20-year-old killed on the night between 17 and 18 May 2015, with a gunshot fired by Antonio Ciontolifather of Federico.
Raimondo Gaspa he had eyed his “prey” while waiting for an interview in prison. The man, after having obtained the girl’s telephone number, began to stalk and harass her, even making heavy sexual advances, to the point of inducing her, worried and frightened, to change her residence.
Raimondo Gaspa 52 year old killed today Monica Moretti, doctor at the ASL of Sassari, after meeting her in the hospital department where Moretti worked as a urologist. He had fallen in love with her, «I called her, but she didn’t want to meet me – Gaspa declared during the trial -. I fell in love in the hospital, but she didn’t want to know about me. So I decided to go to her house.” In 2005 he was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
The investigations into the stalking episode were carried out by the carabinieri of the Rome Montespaccato station and by the investigators of the Operational Unit of the Trastevere Company, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Rome.
