In Italy: “There is no possible revenge. We lost everything”

The verdict fell on Monday before the Milan Assize Court. Alessandro Impagnatiello was sentenced to life imprisonment and a fine of 700,000 euros for the murder of his partner Giulia Tramontano, committed on May 27, 2023. Monday November 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against women, the 30-year-old bartender was found guilty of aggravated intentional homicide, concealment of a corpse and termination of pregnancy. The victim was seven months pregnant when she was stabbed 37 times in her Senago home.

When the verdict was read, Giulia’s family burst into tears. “There is no possible revenge. We lost a daughter, a grandson, we lost our life,” reacted Loredana Femiano, the mother of the Italian who died at the age of 29. “What we have lost, we will never get back. Today we did not win, we lost everything,” added Franco Tramontano, the victim’s father. In the public, the emotion was also palpable among journalists and spectators, some offering a bouquet of white roses to Giulia’s mother.

During this trial concluding a highly publicized case in Italy, prosecutor Alessia Menegazzo painted a chilling portrait of Alessandro Impagnatiello, whom she presented as “a criminal narcissistic pervert, cold and unscrupulous, who only confessed to once with his back to the wall. According to the prosecution, the bartender had planned Giulia’s murder for weeks, so that he could quietly continue his relationship with his 23-year-old mistress. The defense portrayed the accused as “a fragile and miserable man”, who acted in a fit of anger after being unmasked.

According to the prosecutor, “the key to understanding this journey into horror is the dark triad”, that is to say a combination of “psychopathy, narcissism and Machiavellianism” in the accused. The man would have premeditated his crime since December 2022, when Giulia announced to him that she was pregnant, unaware that she was then signing “her death sentence”. In fact, Alessandro did not want this child, because he was having an affair with one of his colleagues. For months, the thirty-year-old tried to kill his partner slowly by giving her rat poison.

He opted for a more radical method after a meeting between Giulia and his mistress, also pregnant, during which the two women understood that he had played games with them. Unmasked, the bartender massacred the mother of his unborn child as soon as he returned home. The young woman’s remains, partially charred, were found a few days later near her home, behind a garage. “I am broken and lost. Even though I’m here, that doesn’t mean I’m alive. I destroyed Giulia’s life and the child we were expecting,” Alessandro Impagnatiello told the court.

Julia Cecchetin: verdict on December 3