Acquitted due to insufficient evidence. This is the verdict of the Assize Court of Napoli for 65-year-old Gennaro De Falco, owner of the Soviet clinical analysis center in Lago Patria, in the municipality of Giugliano.
who was accused of strangling his wife - the 12-year-old Czech Romana Danielova, to whom the center was formally registered - on July 2020, 55 and of staging a fake suicide of his wife with a curtain rope.
The Naples North Prosecutor's Office - deputy Valeria Vinci - had requested a life sentence for De Falco, believing that the manager had first strangled the woman, and then put the curtain cord around her neck; it was the Prosecutor's consultant who established that the groove made by the cord was not lethal, so the woman could only have been strangled by her husband.
The defendant's defense, represented by lawyers Alfonso Quarto and Sergio Cola, had instead called for De Falco's acquittal, basing itself above all on the expert opinion from which the opposite of what the prosecutor's consultant had asserted emerged, namely that the furrow left by the curtain cord was vital and could have been fatal for 55-year-old Romana Danielova, thus supporting the suicide hypothesis.
De Falco's defense also performed a psychological autopsy on the woman, which revealed that the 55-year-old had personality disorders. "The Court - comments Alfonso Quarto, one of De Falco's defense attorneys - has properly applied the rules of judgment that the Constitution imposes, that is, that in case of doubt one should not condemn.
To achieve this result, the teamwork done with the consultants was crucial, which allowed us to overturn the accusation of the Prosecutor's Office, which has always moved forward decisively in its contestation".
Article published on 10 February 2023 - 20:15
