Caserta – Twenty years in prison: this is the sentence handed down to Francesco Franzese, now 18, held responsible for the murder of Davide Carbisiero, 19, killed by a gunshot on April 13, 2025 inside a slot machine hall in Cesa, Caserta, on Via Berlinguer.
The ruling was issued by Filomena Capasso, preliminary hearing judge of the Naples Juvenile Court. The trial was conducted using an abbreviated procedure, which provides for a reduced sentence.
The preliminary hearing judge's ruling and the prosecutor's request
According to the courtroom's reconstruction, the prosecutor's office had requested a lower sentence: prosecutor Francesco Regione had in fact requested 18 years. The judge instead ordered a longer sentence, sentencing him for aggravated murder.
The story: the jugular blow in the slot machine hall
Carbisiero, a resident of Succivo, was found lying in a pool of blood inside the slot machine hall. The autopsy and subsequent tests indicated that the 19-year-old had been struck in the jugular by a bullet fired from a weapon later identified as an 8-caliber with a modified barrel.
According to the documents, the two young men were friends. Prosecutors allege that Franzese—a minor at the time of the incident—fired the shot that killed Carbisiero at point-blank range.
The defendant's version: "He left by chance."
Arrested the next day, Franzese defended himself by claiming he had no intention of killing his friend: the shot, he claimed, had gone off accidentally while he was handling the weapon and showing it to Carbisiero. This reconstruction was deemed unreliable by the preliminary hearing judge, resulting in a 20-year sentence.
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