Manuela Petrangeli was shot dead and for her murder, a life sentence was requested for this reason. “Manuela was a strong, cheerful and determined woman who was brutally murdered, torn from those closest to her at the hands of her son’s father, Gianluca Molinaroa man who was a victim of himself and his pathological obsessions, a victim of the most brutal ancient and ancestral patriarchal model of male-female relations, the result of stereotypes that Molinaro interpreted in the worst possible way,” the prosecutor said. Antonella Pandalfi during his arraignment before the judges of the First Court of the Assizes of Rome on the day that the Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is celebrated.
Prosecutors also asked for 18 months of daytime isolation for Molinaro, who is accused of murdering his ex-partner and the mother of his child on July 4 last year. Following an investigation coordinated by deputy prosecutor Giuseppe Cascini, who was present in the courtroom today with prosecutors, the man was charged with the crime of aggravated murder with advance planning and give it stalkingabout illegal possession of weapons and in connection with the last charge, also about receiving stolen property. In the indictment, which lasted more than two hours, Prosecutor Pandolfi referred to today’s date. “November 25 is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and I feel the need to remember Manuela, who was taken from her loved ones, and denied her freedom: no justification can be converted into the right to live or die.”
They were traced back to the courtroom messages with many insults and threats sent to the woman until shortly before the murder. “Molinaro is a man who has not managed to get over a breakup after three and a half years, harboring blind rage and pathological obsession with the victim. He planned the extermination of his child’s mother in a cold and graphic way – he underlined – One thing is certain: Molinaro’s voice message mentions more than a thousand witnesses. Manuela’s murder it doesn’t fit but the announcement of the death, the cold, clear and planned execution, he said was a ticking time bomb, that he wanted to eliminate a problem and that problem was Manuela”.
