Pamela Genini murder: Gianluca Soncin apologizes in court, the victim's family rejects

"I know that forgiveness cannot be expected. I understand the weight of my actions." It is a passage from the statements made today in the courtroom in Milan by Gianluca Soncin, the 52-year-old in prison for killing his girlfriend, Pamela Genini, with 76 stab wounds on the evening of October 14, 2025. The accused, in apologizing to the family of the young woman he stabbed, added: "I just have to fully assume the consequences for the pain I have caused".

Pamela Genini's mother replied to Soncin's words through her lawyer: "We reject them to the sender. They are plastic, insignificant words that take nothing away." "They are very late - he stated during a break in the hearing - He should have accepted those apologies that Pamela made to him, when he dragged her by the hair onto the balcony and begged him not to kill her. He should have stopped there".

Soncin appeared in the courtroom at a trial hearing, sitting next to his lawyers. Even before the witnesses were heard, he asked to be able to make spontaneous statements. And in a low, flat voice, reading a few handwritten lines on a piece of paper, he spoke for the first time: "In this moment of great pain and profound sadness I offer my apologies to Pamela's family. Since that day our lives have changed profoundly. I know that forgiveness cannot be expected. I understand the weight of my actions and the memory of Pamela will remain indelible in our hearts. All that remains for me is to fully assume the consequences for the pain I have caused with a sense of responsibility." On the evening of 14 October last year, the man, after having obtained a duplicate of the young girl's house keys, entered her apartment in Via Iglesias, on the outskirts of Milan and, while Pamela was on the phone with a friend, he hit her with 76 blows, first on the terrace of the house and then in the house. For him the charge is multi-aggravated murder.