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January 23, 2020 The trial for the murder of Alessandro Polizzi will be held in Cassation on March 19, which sees Riccardo Menenti as accused, already sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime of the young Perugian and for that attempted by Julia Tosti, but recently released for effective date. Freed also the son of Menenti, sentenced to 16 years for complicity.

The date was set today by the president of the fifth criminal section of the Court of Cassation.

The facts
On the night between 25 and 26 March 2013 Riccardo Menenti, a former 60-year-old boxer, entered the apartment in via Ettore Ricci in Perugia, covered by a balaclava, where Alessandro Polizzi slept with Julia Tosti, the ex-girlfriend of his son Valerio. The blitz was nothing more than a revenge of the Menenti against Polizzi, who on more than one occasion had physically "clashed" with Valerio. Riccardo Menenti fired a gunshot with an old weapon dating back to the Second World War against Alexander, who managed to get out of bed and face the attacker. Menenti would therefore have raged against Alexander, pounding him to death.

The investigations were swift: they indicated to Riccardo the material executor of the assassination and attributed to the son Valerio a role of complicity. Riccardo Menenti has been sentenced to life imprisonment while Valerio has to serve sixteen years, but he too was released last May due to the terms of pre-trial detention.

A story that had aroused controversy and prompted the Minister of Justice Bonafede to send the inspectors to Florence with the task of reconstructing what had happened to the file and above all because the papers had not been sent to Rome in good time.