The Milan Assize Court has ordered a psychiatric evaluation of Alessandro Impagnatiello, accused of the aggravated murder of his girlfriend Giulia Tramontano, who was seven months pregnant. On June 27, the President Antonella Bertoja will assign the task to the expert, a forensic psychiatrist.
The assessment requested by the judges will have to evaluate the presence of a personality disorder in the 31-year-old, as indicated by the defense consultancy conducted by the lawyers Samanta Barbaglia and Giulia Geradini.
If the appointed expert the court confirmed this diagnosis, a generic mitigating circumstance could be recognized. It is less likely that a partial or total defect of mind that affects the capacity to understand and to want at the time of the fact will be recognized.
The unmasking by the two women with whom he had parallel relationships has provoked in Alexander Impagnetiello "a real psychotrauma, an extremely powerful narcissistic wound. He found himself exposed with respect to this entire plan he had elaborated.", he declared in court psychiatrist Raniero Rossetto, responsible for providing defense advice on the former barman.
The psychiatrist who examined him said, "A chess player who must master everything."
"In the first interview, he described the image of the chessboard to me. He felt like a chess player who had to control all the movements of the board, and he did it with lies.". Faced with unmasking, "He's lost some of his sense of reality. I'm not talking about mental capacity or incapacity, because we're not in the field of expert opinion. But this is what happened. It's called 'lucid delirium': even those who are delirious can be lucid."
Even the administration of poison to the victim "it could certainly be part of a clear criminal plan"According to the psychiatrist, Impagnatiello had not "planned to eliminate Giulia" and his "criminal plan" did not include "a post-homicide defense."
With the poison, which however the accused never spoke about with the consultants, "he aimed to suppress the fetus, which represented a variable in his chessboard, not so much for economic reasons as for his mental state.
The thing she couldn't control at a certain point was the unborn child." The psychologist Silvana Branciforti, who administered the tests for the counselling, spoke of "a paranoid personality disorder" with "an obsessive component."
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