Life imprisonment for the third time on appeal and in the sixth trial in total, which certainly will not be the last because there will be another Supreme Court. Thus ended the tormented judicial process that characterized a terrible affair, the second degree 'ter' against Davide Fontana, the former banker who on 11 January 2022 killed and chopped up his ex-girlfriend Carol Maltesi, 26, in her home in Rescaldina, in the Milan area.
The Court of Assizes of Appeal of Milan (president Enrico Manzi), in fact, recognizing once again the premeditation, after two sentences of the Supreme Court, the last one last February, which had annulled with postponement the life sentence precisely on the point of that aggravating circumstance, inflicted on the accused the maximum sentence, without daytime isolation. The issue to be resolved remained that of the planning of the crime, because the most recent verdict of the Supreme Court spoke of "obvious deficits" in the reasons for the 'bis' appeal compared to those that excluded it in the first instance, in which Fontana had been sentenced to 30 years, with related controversies. "I could never organize to harm her. This is far from who I was and who I am. I'm sorry and I'm ashamed, that horror never belonged to me, I apologize to everyone", the 46-year-old tried to defend himself in the courtroom, defended by the lawyer Stefano Paloschi. Defense that supported "intense malice" and requested mitigating circumstances to the maximum extent, while the Court confirmed them as "subvalent" even compared to that of cruelty. Fontana, as reconstructed in the investigation, killed Carol by hitting her with a hammer and then cutting her throat, while she was tied up to shoot a video intended for Onlyfans. Video commissioned by himself with a fake profile. He cut the body into pieces and then stored the remains for over two months in a freezer. Unable to burn them, he decided to abandon them in black bags in a landfill in the Brescia area, where they were found by a passer-by.
The deputy prosecutor Simonetta Bellaviti, reconstructing all the clues to premeditation one by one, explained that the former banker "scientifically organized the murder and also the post-mortem. And in the face of these strong elements - she added - the Court of Cassation seems to me to be splitting hairs". He knew "perfectly what he would do after the crime, so much so that he asked for a fake work illness due to Covid". After killing Carol "and leaving her there in the blood, he bought the hatchet, the mask glasses, shears and gloves". It was, he added, "two months with the body in the house, while everyone was looking for her, after he had killed her with 13 blows to the head, without stopping, because he had developed a pathological dependence on her and did not want to give her up". "We hope it's over this time, but I don't believe it anymore. I'm happy with the sentence. We've taken a step forward. We have no other consolations than this sentence", Anna, Carol's sister, told reporters, among the civil parties, as well as her father, represented by the lawyers Anna Maria Rago, Riccardo Terron and Manuela Scalia. "There is no intention of a meeting on restorative justice (to which Fontana was admitted some time ago, ed.), I don't want to know anything about him. In January it will be 5 years since she was killed and what do we still have to re-evaluate?", continued the sister. It is obvious, however, that after the filing of the reasons there will be a seventh trial in 60 days, because the defense will appeal.
