Overview

• Judges describe Riccardo Chiaroni as a manipulator who lucidly planned the killings, adjusted his actions before, during and after, and executed them with extreme violence recorded as 108 stab wounds.
• The ruling says he lured his parents to his bedroom after attacking his 12-year-old brother, showing what the court called scaltrezza and organization inconsistent with diminished responsibility.
• Investigators found ideological signals on his devices, including a photo of Mein Kampf and expressions indicating fascist, Nazi and homophobic leanings, which the court noted in its reasoning.
• Psychiatric expert Franco Martelli reported a persistent fantasy of achieving “immortality” and personality dysfunctions, yet the judge concluded Chiaroni distinguished reality from imagination and maintained control.
• The court upheld the June sentence of 20 years in the abbreviated juvenile trial, and the defense says it will appeal, arguing the judge failed to account for the partial-insanity findings.