Chiara Gualzetti, for the investigating judge: "The murderer could have killed again"

Chiara Gualzetti's murderer could kill again: this is what the investigating judge wrote in the precautionary order with which he ordered the prison sentence for the 16-year-old accused of the murder of Monteveglie in the province of Bologna.

The 16-year-old initially tried to 'mislead' the investigation and only collapsed when faced with more elements of accusation. This was written by the investigating judge of Juvenile Court of Bologna, Louis Martello, who yesterday validated the arrest and ordered the prison sentence for the suspect.

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The judge speaks of “personality inclined to follow one's emotional impulses”, there was “the initial denial of any responsibility” and he reported that Chiara “had a subsequent appointment with another young man”. For the investigating judge, prison is necessary because it has “hid the clothes, washed the shoes and the knife, destroyed the victim's cell phone, deleted images and messages from his own cell phone” and “only in the face of exceptionally relevant elements of the accusation, admitted to having killed his friend”.

The list of evidence against the minor – with a “regular life, substantially adequate family environment and positively attended studies” – is broad, despite “the lucid and cold attempts to hide the traces of the crime”. There are the “images taken from a video surveillance system showing the young man and the victim walking away together; recovery of the weapon used, seizure of the clothes worn at the time of the crime and still stained with blood; recovery of the victim's cell phone cover; unequivocal content of the voice messages sent to another friend to whom she told what she had done and finally extensive confessional statements”.

Chiara Gualzetti and her murderer

Furthermore, according to the investigating judge, he is capable of understanding and willing. The arrest was validated, both because of the risk of escape and because “there is a need to avoid the commission of other crimes of the same nature” given “the lack of scruples, inhibitions, motivations” or signs of remorse.

After the murder, the young man sent voice messages, “of unequivocal tenor”, to another friend, “in which he told what he had done”. When the young woman's body was found, an autopsy is scheduled for tomorrow, the military found several stab wounds. The investigating judge writes: he hit her “repeatedly with violence, with stabs to the neck, chest and throat and, finally, with kicks”. The murderer attacked her with great ferocity and finally made sure she was dead, took her cell phone, then left the Abbey Park, to hide all the evidence.