On Friday, September 17, 2021, little
Samuele
, only
4 years old
,
fell from the balcony of his home, it was later discovered that the
servant
who had worked for that family for years
dropped him .
Today, one year and ten days after that tragedy, the gup Nicoletta Campanaro closed the trial of first instance
, sentencing
Mariano Cannio, 39 years
of imprisonment to 18 years of imprisonment
, being treated for a psychiatric illness.
The judge accepted the requests of the prosecutor Barbara Aprea coordinated by the deputy prosecutor Raffaello Falcone.
Samuele's parents, his grandfather and other family members, present at the reading of the sentence, were unable to hold back the emotion.
declaring through their lawyer: "
It is not appropriate to talk about satisfaction, we have put ourselves back in the hands of the law
".
Handle
Naples, police investigations on the place where little Samuele was killed, 17 September 2021
Cannio was identified by the Flying Squad and detained the day after the tragedy: an expedient was necessary to take him.
To the investigators who questioned
him he confessed that he had dropped the baby down
.
News received with disbelief in the neighborhood where the 39-year-old servant also served with other families.
A consultancy found him capable of understanding and willing, despite the
psychiatric pathology
kept under control with the treatments, and, therefore, also of supporting the process.
Today during the replies, the
defense lawyer
put forward the thesis that Samuele's death could be the result of an
accident
, a thesis linked to the presence on the balcony of a table with two chairs that the child could have used to look out.
The admission of guilt of his client, again according to the lawyer Zotti, could instead be attributable to his precarious state of health.
Thesis not accepted by the judge who instead considered to convict him for voluntary murder.
"
As soon as we have the reasons
- the lawyer announced - we
will appeal
"