In Bologna, in the Amato Trial, the daughter of the victim and accused: “Never had rational suspicions about my father”

"Maybe my mother abused drugs." Anna Chiara Amato's deposition provides an assist to the defense of her father Giampaolo, accused of the death of his wife and mother-in-law

BOLOGNA – In the Amato Trial, underway in Bologna, the words of the victim’s daughter do not accuse, on the contrary in some way they help to support the version of her father, Giampaolo Amato. The ophthalmologist is accused for the double murder of his wife, Isabella Lsala, found lifeless in bed on October 31, 2021, and of his mother-in-law, Giulia Tateo, 87, which occurred three weeks earlier, in circumstances similar.

After the death of my mother Isabella Lsala “I may have made hypotheses about anyone: about the woman with whom my father had an affair, about my aunt Anna Maria and also about my father”, even if “I never had rational suspicions that he could have done that thing (kill Lsalad, ed.)”. In fact, Anna said it before the judges of the Bologna Assize Court who are trying her father Giampaolo on charges of killing his mother-in-law and his wife in October 2021. Chiara Amato. The daughter of the 65-year-old ophthalmologist, who, like her brother Nicola, was not a civil party in the proceedings, in her testimony did not say anything that could sound like an accusation against her father, defining his family as “those of the Mulino Bianco”, at least until the discovery of the accused’s extramarital affair.

THE DAUGHTER CLAIMS THAT THE VICTIM USED BENZODIAZEPINES TO SLEEP: “I’M AFRAID HE WAS EXAGGERATING”

Instead, some of the witness’s responses about her mother caused some buzz from the public – which includes several of Isabella Lsala’s friends. Anna Chiara Amato in fact said she was convinced that Lsalata “was taking something to sleep: I don’t know how much, but I fear that she was exaggerating, that she was therefore not super lucid and that, by exaggerating with these benzodiazepines, she may have thought that my father could have given them to him.” However, he adds, “if my mother had really been convinced of this, it is inconceivable to me that with such doubt she would continue to see him and make him stay with me and Nicola”. As proof of what she states, the witness states that Lsala, after having confided that suspicion to a friend, “later on she never spoke about it again, which makes me think that she had it in a moment of confusion”.
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photo of the accused Giampaolo Amato (from virtus.it)

“MY MOTHER WAS A DESTROYED WOMAN, SHE WAS EMOTIONALLY SICK”

Finally, returning to the mother’s physical ailments, Amato reiterates that “those episodes of drowsiness and narcolepsy manifested themselves every time she was particularly ill due to the situation that had been created: she was a destroyed woman, who was emotionally bad“, and since “I too, in that kind of situations, have reactions that are not identical, but similar, I saw it as a reaction to stress, depression and sadness”. The deposition, which began just before 10 in the morning, continued for over five hours, followed by the testimony of Nicola Amato, Anna Chiara’s brother.