Gianluca Ciardelli,

 Gianluca Ciardelli, a 63-year-old Rai journalist and author, killed his wife Lorella Tomei in her sleep in May 2021, in their apartment in Rome in the Balduina district. The first Assize Court of Rome acquitted him because he was judged incapable of understanding and will . The man will have to spend 15 years in a Rems in Ceccano in the province of Frosinone.

INCAPABLE OF UNDERSTANDING OR WANTING

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Rems is a facility for prisoners with psychiatric problems. The public prosecutor Antonio Verdi explained how, given the brutal crime, as representative of the prosecution he would have asked for the maximum sentence but "the act was placed in a state of incapacity of understanding and will of the subject". The man hit his wife in her sleep and then called her son telling him that his mother didn't wake up: "they did something to her" he said. When the police arrived he was calm in bed next to the body he was reading. Gianluca Ciardelli has suffered from psychiatric problems for over 40 years and in the weeks preceding the murder he had stopped taking drugs, even lying

MANIC BIPOLAR DISORDER

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Psychiatrists Rolando Paterniti and Vittorio Fineschi visited Ciardelli immediately after the murder and confirmed that he was suffering from a form of manic bipolar disorder. The man tried to make the blood disappear with bleach and hide the ceramic shards with which he had hit his wife, clumsy attempts that were the expression of a lack of clarity. A few months before the murder he had entered St. Peter's Square shouting incoherent and senseless phrases. A serious mood and personality disorder that would worsen over the years. Given the high social danger, confirmed by specialists, the man will have to remain under surveillance in a Rems.

SON NO LONGER HAS RELATIONSHIPS

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His son Simone commented to LaRepubblica that it was an expected sentence, given the expert reports, but also that "the State and justice, as it is now, does not protect families who have people with these pathologies at home". According to the man, the sentence does not protect the community and speaking in general, he underlines that if the state were more present, also given his father's precedents, perhaps some crimes would have been avoidable. Simone Ciardelli today no longer has relations with his father.

PUSHED BY THE FREEMASONS

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During the interview with the technical consultants, Ciardelli said that he had killed his wife driven by the Freemasons and that there was a demon coming out of his wife's head. The man repeated that he had been possessed and that he remembered nothing of the moment of the murder. His wife Lorella Tomei was hit with a ceramic artefact which broke her nose, jaw and cheekbones, killing her due to violent mechanical asphyxiation. According to her accusation, Ciardelli also climbed on top of her, perhaps trying to strangle her and compressing her ribs.