A 70-year-old man, Salvatore
Montefusco, has been sentenced by a court of assizes in Modena
to 30 years in prison instead of life for the double murder of
his wife and her daughter over the "understandably human motives
that drove him to commit the crime", according to the motivation
of a sentence which has been viewed by ANSA.
The motivation of the court of assizes, which includes a jury as
well as two judges, in choosing a 30-year term for the double
femicide on June 13 2022 rather than the life term requested by
prosecutors was that Montefusco "did not have a police record at
70 and would never have committed a crime of such gravity had he
not been driven by the dire family dynamic that had developed
over time".
Montefusco shot his wife Gabriela Trandafir, 47, and her
22-year-old daughter Renata dead with a machine gun in the
central town of Cavazzona di Castelfranco Emilia.
The court recognized the extenuating circumstances, ruling out,
among others, premeditation and cruelty.
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