Genoa – Alberto Scagni, the 42-year-old man who stabbed his sister Alice outside the house on May 1st “is almost still” in mind. This is what is established by Elvezio Pirfo, the expert of the judge for preliminary investigations Paola Faggioni.
The expert has filed his report and it will be discussed on 3 November. “Alberto Scagni – leaked from investigative sources – is a carrier from early adulthood of a serious personality disorder of an antisocial type, narcissistic and borderline complicated by a poly-abuse disorder of psychoactive substances (alcohol and cannabis). He is not suffering from schizophrenia. At the time of his arrest he was not in a critical state of abstinence from psychoactive substances to suggest the existence of a chronic intoxication “.
“Scagni has a mental illness for which his ability to understand and want was greatly diminished but not entirely excluded. You are capable of standing in court “.
At this point the man, defended by the lawyers Elisa Brigandì and Maurizio Mascia, will be able to obtain a penalty discount. It is not excluded that he may be questioned and in the light of the interrogation, his lawyers may ask for a new expert opinion in the future. After the murder, the prosecutor had opened a file by omission.
Even the parents, through the lawyer Fabio Anselmo, had presented a complaint to the prosecutor for omission of official acts and death as a consequence of another crime. Family members pointed the finger at the omissions of law enforcement and the Mental Health doctor. For mom and dad, the alarms and requests for help would have been underestimated: if they had been listened to and if they had intervened, Alice would have been saved. Scagni had killed her sister, mother of a one year and four month old baby, because she wanted more money from the family.
In the complaint, the parents had repeated the escalation of violence before the murder: from the punches against the grandmother’s house in the middle of the night and the attempted fire of the old woman’s door, up to the phone call of threats made to the parents seven hours before the homocide. “We sought help from the institutions. We ran into a cold and ignorant bureaucracy,” he accused Antonella Zarri, mother of the two protagonists of the tragedy.
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