Overview

• On July 2, prosecutor Letizia Mocciaro asked the Corte d’Assise in Milan to sentence Daniele Rezza, who was 19 at the time, to 20 years for the killing of Manuel Mastrapasqua.
• The prosecution requested exclusion of all aggravating circumstances and the application of generic mitigating factors in Rezza’s case.
• Manuel Mastrapasqua, 31, was stabbed during an attempted robbery of €15 wireless headphones in Rozzano and died shortly after being found by Carabinieri and transported to Humanitas Hospital.
• The hearing represents a pivotal moment in the trial as courts assess how to balance sentence severity with defendants’ age and social background in petty‐theft homicides.
• Public debate in Lombardy has centered on proportional justice when minor thefts escalate into lethal violence and the influence of social marginalization on sentencing.