Alex Pompa and his family had been in a climate of terror for years. Climate that would justify his impetuous gesture in killing his father
Many will remember the news story of April 2020, which involved Alex Pump and his family. The boy, who was only 18 at the time, had killed his father to defend himself and his mother from the man’s mad jealousy. Today, details emerged regarding the sentence of the Court of Assizes of Turin, which had acquitted the boy in 2021.
Years and years of physical and verbal violence, culminating in an episode of exasperation. The story linked to Alex Pompa could thus be summarized.
The facts date back to 30 April 2020, in full lock down. Giuseppe Pompa, a 52-year-old worker, had followed his wife spying on her while she was at work. Seeing a woman’s interaction with a colleague, the man is himself jealous to the point of waiting for his wife at home with every intention of sparking yet another quarrel.
A quarrel that resembled so much the thousand others that had occurred in previous years, which had the mad jealousy of a man as their only constant. obsessed and violent towards his family.
After the screams, the man was on his way to the kitchen to get some knives with which he would later want to kill his wife and two children. Alex, forced to go through all that for years, couldn’t take it anymore. He ran into the kitchen too, got a knife and has killed his father with over 30 stab wounds.
Alex Pompa acted to defend his mother
After three degrees of trial, in which the prosecution had asked for a 14-year prison sentence for Alex Pompa, the Turin Court of Assizes had completely acquitted the boy because, according to the Judge, the fact did not exist.
Today, nearly two years after the episode, they have emerged new details right on that sentence.
Alex’s action, according to the court judges, was impetus and dictated by the absolute need to defend his mother.
Furthermore, we read in the details of the sentence, Alex came from a period of forced lockdown, caused by the pandemic, which had prevented him from being able to leave the sick family environment and had increased his state of anxiety and fear. Anxiety that the Court defined “more than justified”.
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