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Impagnatiello: “That child blew my goals away. 37 stab wounds? A scary number”

"I confessed the parallel relationship to Giulia, it's a sign that my head was going crazy. But I don't think I'm crazy," Impagnatiello said in court. The child was hindering his "goals". Giulia? "I gave her so much suffering that I didn't see"

BOLOGNA – A child he didn’t want and a castle of lies – the one created to carry on the parallel relationship with the other girl – which at a certain point he overwhelmed and could no longer manage. These are the only delusional motivations that can be found in the river of words pronounced today in the courtroom by Alessandro Impagnatiello, accused of multiple aggravated murder for killing his partner on May 27, 2023. Giulia Tramontano and the child she had been carrying for seven months, Thiago, who should have been born in July. Today the 31-year-old, on trial in the Assize Court of Milan, responded to questions from the public prosecutor Alessia Menegazzo to provide some clarifications. He had already made statements in the previous hearing on May 27, admitting to having killed Giulia. Today he spoke again, answering the prosecution’s questions. Then the defense consultants spoke. And it is not excluded that the defense will ask for a psychiatric evaluation for the barman and several statements made today by the accused suggest that the strategy is (unfortunately) exactly that.

“IF-HE-had-had-an-aborted-we-would-have-stayed-together”

That pregnancy disturbed Alessandro Impagnatiello’s plans, “it slowed down the path I wanted to take”: to finally own a home, a promotion at work. “I asked Giulia to wait a year,” Impagnatiello said. “It’s as if in my head we could take steps backwards: the goal of buying a house would have been skipped, the goal of my promotion would have been put in doubt, how to slow down the path I wanted to take. I asked Giulia to postpone for a year, once I had obtained the promotion I would have worked only during daytime hours and we would have had a better economic position”. Giulia, for her part, “wanted” that child, but “in the very first weeks, conditioned by my fluctuating reactions, she considered the idea of having an abortion“, said Impagnatiello. The name Thiago? “It was one of the probable names, it was among my preferences and Giulia disliked it less than others.” What if Giulia had had an abortion? “Today we wouldn’t be here. Giulia and I loved each other so much, after a possible abortion there would certainly have been a delicate moment to face. We wouldn’t have left each other.”

“IN THOSE DAYS MY HEAD WAS GOING CRAZY. I DON’T THINK I WAS CRAZY”

The murder occurred on the Saturday evening in which Giulia Tramontano, having come to discover Impagnatiello’s parallel relationship, met with the other girl in a bar in Milan. On the confession of the parallel relationship, today Impagnatiello said: “Being so superficial as to confess the parallel relationship to my pregnant partner was yet another symptom that my head was going crazy. I’m not saying that I’m crazy, I hoped to believe it, I wanted to believe I was crazy I don’t think I’m crazy“, said the defendant. “I told Giulia about the parallel relationship and her reaction was negative. She was shaken that evening”, he added.

THE CASTLE OF LIES

Lies upon lies, a situation that he was no longer able to handle, says Impagnatiello: “I was a vessel completely saturated with lies and lies and I wasn’t used to telling lies. It was as if it were overflowed something, as if I had to empty it because something was eating me inside I have no explanation as to why I confessed to the betrayal, just as I don’t know why I allowed the other girl to see my cell phone where it was all there. my life with Giulia”.

THE 37 STABS

Impagnatiello said he did not remember stabbing the young woman 37 times. In the first interrogations after he was stopped he spoke of three shots. Today he said: “When I learned in prison from a television report that I had stabbed her 37 times, one thing I automatically did was mime the hand gesture 37 times. Not that there is a correct number, however it’s a frightening, suffocating figure“. Why did he say he had inflicted three stab wounds? “I can’t tell you why I said three. I could have said any number.”

“I REAGAIND CONTACT WITH REALITY ONLY THE NEXT DAY”

“I regained contact with reality hours later. A part of me understood what had happened, another part of me continued to clash. The first real contact with reality the following day when I went to the carabinieri. I remember cleaning the whole house without concentrating“, said Impagnatiello.

THE ‘REDEMPTION’

“In prison the educators told me that I can no longer go back but I can however look forward, it is certainly easy to say but difficult to do. I know that I cannot go back, if I could do anything to go back in these months I would do it. I’m still working hard on myself I carry on my existence mechanically more than my life”, said Impagnatiello . And again: “For me today is as if it were the last hearing on May 27th. May 27th is a very important, symbolic date“. What do you see in the future? “I don’t know what my future will be, my existence. I only know that the purpose of my life today, my new life is to do something, anything,” even if “it won’t bring me back” or get me back.” Giulia and the child. I would do anything to compensate“. Impagnatiello places Giulia’s murder in a “single slice of my past so distant from what I was. It was as if I had a person in front of me who had my name and my body“.< /p>

THE REDHEADS

The lies after the crime and the pretending to go and look for Giulia? “I was in that state of hiding, of running away from that monster that had just come out of me,” Impagnatiello said.

THE PAINTING IN THE HOUSE OF SENAGO

Today in the courtroom Impagnatiello also spoke about the beach holiday in Ibizia that the couple had taken a few weeks before the crime. Giulia was already pregnant and the photo of her with her belly on the seashore, beautiful, was the first of the girl that began to circulate, when she had still only disappeared. Sister Chiara had spread it. In the house where Giulia was killed, investigators found a painting with an enlargement of a photo of the couple taken on that very holiday. an element that clashes with the tragic crime that would have occurred shortly thereafter. “That painting was a gift because we particularly liked the photo, it represented a beautiful moment for me, the moment of finding my way again with Giulia. I saw Giulia again.” Although in recent months, I have realized that I gave Giulia a lot of suffering that I didn’t see. I didn’t give her the attention and care I wanted to give her. But in that moment I found Giulia again. I gave her this painting, a fairly large photo of us that symbolized a beautiful and important moment for us”.

THE LIES ABOUT HOLIDAYS IN IBIZA

The prosecutor asked Impagnatiello if he had heard from the other girl during this holiday. He replied no, explaining that he had told her that he was away with friends and that she sent him lots of messages but he didn’t reply and was focused on Giulia. “I forgot about her in those days. I didn’t look for her, I didn’t write to her, I didn’t reply to her. I managed to distance myself from her on that occasion. Then unfortunately we returned to Milan and I relapsed.” However, things didn’t exactly go that way. In fact, the prosecutor spoke again and pressed the accused: “Is it safe? The forensic copies say otherwise.In three days we found over 500 exchanges of photos and messages“. The accused justifies himself as follows: “Yes, it’s true, she wrote to me, she was looking for me, I was slow in replying to her, I had distanced myself very much from her”. At a certain point he sent her a photo taken of the sea: “It was a response to the ten, twenty messages he sent me, it was a tiny thing compared to our standards”.

THINGS THAT DON’T-come-back

There are some elements that do not add up regarding the moments immediately preceding the murder. Today the prosecution asked Impagnatiello to account. The barman had spoken, in the last hearing, of a peaceful discussion that took place with Giulia before the crime and had also said that she had cut her finger. He said he hit her while she was crouching in front of a piece of furniture looking for a Band-Aid. But the autopsy did not show this wound. His response: “She had cut her finger but not seriously“. As for the argument, it is not clear how it could have been a peaceful discussion, given that a neighbor said she heard “a woman’s screams”.

GIULIA’S MOTHER ASKS FOR AN “EXEMPLARY PUNISHMENT”

“The world has not already been a fair place worthy of these two lives. In all this horror, however, now it is time for justice to be done, and justice in this case is an exemplary punishment”, he wrote on Giulia Tramontano’s mother, Loredana Femiano, Instagram. “Dear Giulia, it is no longer a time of horror, it is no longer a time of lies, selfishness and malice. Anyone who has crossed paths with you on the path of life, today retains a sweet memory that will remain an indelible mark in their soul”, he added .