Michele Castaldo

  • He killed a woman in the grip of an emotional storm, punished by half for 30 to 16 years

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04 March 2019The Prosecutor General of Bologna will appeal to the Court of Cassation against the sentence of the Court of Appeal that has almost halved, from 30 to 16 years, the penalty for Michele Castaldo, a self-confessed murderer of Olga Matei, with whom he had a relationship with almost a month. In the sentence generic extenuating circumstances are granted also because the man was in the grip of an 'emotional storm'. The judicial office led by the Ignatius De Francisci prosecutor will ask, the ANSA learns, the Supreme Court to assess the correctness of the principles expressed.

"Jealousy was not considered a reason for attenuating the treatment, rather, on the contrary, a cause of aggravation as it is integrating the aggravating circumstance of having acted for abject-futile reasons (and this with wide and convinced motivation, which occupies two dense pages motivation) ". The president of the Court of Appeal of Bologna, Giuseppe Colonna, explains this, providing some "technical" clarifications on the sentence that has almost halved the penalty for Michele Castaldo, accused for the murder of Olga Matei.

"The measure of responsibility (from the point of view of intent) was in any case conditioned by the unhappy experiences of life, affective, past of the accused, which in the past had also led to the need for psychiatric care, which had amplified his fear of abandonment", explains the president of the Court of Appeal of Bologna Giuseppe Colonna, clarifying the reasons why the Court of Assizes of Appeal decided to grant generic extenuating circumstances to Michele Castaldo, a defendant for the murder of Olga Matei, in Riccione, in 2016.

"This - continues Colonna - is the relevant datum beyond the sentence, which is however textually treated by the expert: 'overwhelming emotional and passionate storm'". Colonna also points out that the granting of extenuating circumstances was also based on the "immediate and spontaneous confession" and on the fact that the accused "although in an incomplete form, tried to start compensating the victim's daughter".