The North Naples Prosecutor's Office (replacing Prosecutor Valeria Vinci) has requested a life sentence for 65-year-old Gennaro De Falco, owner of the Soviet clinical analysis center in Lago Patria.
The man is accused before the Naples Assize Court on charges of having strangled his wife - the 12-year-old of Czech origin Romana Danielova, to whom the center was formally registered - on July 2020, 55 and of having staged a fake suicide by his wife.
The heart of the prosecution is the hypothesis that De Falco first strangled the woman, and then put the curtain cord around her neck; it was the consultant of the Prosecutor's Office who established that the groove made by the cord was not vital, so the woman could only have been strangled by her husband.
Alfonso Quarto, the defendant's lawyer, instead called for De Falco's acquittal, and this on the basis of a private expert opinion which shows the opposite of what the prosecutor's consultant asserted, namely that the furrow left by the curtain cord was vital and could therefore have killed 55-year-old Romana Danielova.
De Falco's defense, to support its suicide thesis, also performed a 'psychological autopsy' on the woman, which revealed that the 55-year-old had personality disorders. The court will return on Friday, February 10 for the verdict.
The medical center that De Falco owns is very well known between Naples and Caserta; it hosts various specialist studies, including a rehabilitation center that in recent years has often been visited by Napoli players, from Hamsik to Lavezzi and Cavani.
In short
The North Naples Prosecutor's Office (replacing Prosecutor Valeria Vinci) has requested a life sentence for 65-year-old Gennaro De Falco, owner of the Soviet clinical analysis center in Lago Patria.
- The man is accused before the Naples Assize Court of Appeal of strangling his wife on July 12, 2020.
- The core of the prosecution's case is the hypothesis that De Falco first strangled the woman, then placed the cord around her neck...
- Alfonso Quarto, the defendant's lawyer, instead called for De Falco's acquittal, based on expert opinion...
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The North Naples Prosecutor's Office (replacing Prosecutor Valeria Vinci) has requested a life sentence for 65-year-old Gennaro De Falco, owner of the Soviet clinical analysis center in…
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The man is accused before the Naples Assize Court of Appeal of strangling his wife on July 12, 2020.
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The core of the prosecution's investigation is the hypothesis that De Falco first strangled the woman, then wrapped the curtain cord around her neck; it had been…
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