Crime in via Portugal, today the psychologist who is treating the child will speak at the trial. One of the killer’s sons took the witness stand: “he threatened us with death too”. .

Rimini, 23 October 2023 – Since that evening he has no longer been himself. After seeing the grandmother on the ground, in a pool of blood, her head almost severed by one of the stab wounds inflicted by the grandfather. He is one of the grandchildren of Angela Avitabile, the 59-year-old who was massacred by her husband Raffaele Fogliamanzillo in their home in Via Portugal on 22 April last year. But the 7-year-old boy didn’t just see the body. The little boy, one of Anna’s two children (the eldest of Angela and Raffaele’s three children), would also have witnessed the crime. From the stories told by the child, and above all from his drawings, we understand that that evening he managed to see something. This is why today, at the new hearing in the Assize Court of the trial against Fogliamanzillo, the psychologist who has been treating the child for months will also speak. She will try to explain the meaning of the macabre drawings made by the little one.

But Ferdinando Fogliamanzillo, 39 years old, one of the couple’s three children, will also be heard in court today. In the previous hearing, in September, the brothers Anna (41 years old) and Maicol (24) had already been heard. With their dramatic testimonies they had painted the father as “a violent man obsessed with jealousy”.

A father who “acted like a boss in the house” and who always went around with a knife, which he kept in the bedroom at night. A man suffering from psychiatric disorders, who has been treated for years. For this reason, the children, fearing for the safety of their mother Angela and themselves, had asked the Rimini Mental Health Center several times to have him admitted to hospital. Assisted by the lawyers Aidi Pini and Milena Montemaggi, the three children took part in the civil action against their father. And I don’t believe the thesis of Fogliamanzillo’s lawyer, Viviana Pellegrini, according to which the man that evening, when he massacred Angela with 11 stab wounds (the first blow almost severed her head), would have been “incapable of understanding and will” . “We ask for justice for our mother”, repeat Anna, Ferdinando and Maicol. Who told the judges that, during a meeting in prison, their father threatened them by saying: “When I get out I’ll finish the job and I’ll kill you”. It wouldn’t have been the first time Fogliamanzillo threatened his children with death. “He did it all the time with us and our mother,” Maicol revealed.