The Bologna Review Court has ordered Chiara Petrolini, the 21-year-old under house arrest on charges of murder and suppression of a corpse after the discovery of the two bodies of the newborns in the garden of the villa in Traversetolo, in the province of Parma. The Review fully accepted the appeal of the Parma Prosecutor’s Office: the judges ordered custody in prison for the murder of 7 August 2024 and for the suppression of the two corpses, i.e. also for the newborn born on 12 May 2023. The However, the execution of the measure is suspended until the decision is final. The reasons are expected within 45 days. The lawyer Nicola Tria, Petrolini’s defense lawyer, does not rule out an appeal to the Supreme Court and reiterates that “house arrest is an adequate measure” for his client. “The precautionary measure – highlighted Tria – cannot and must never represent an anticipation of the sentence”. The appeal was lodged by the chief prosecutor of Parma Alfonso D’Avino together with the prosecutor Francesca Arienti, against the investigating judge’s decision to place the 21-year-old under house arrest for the premeditated murder, committed on 7 August last, and for the suppression of a corpse committed on May 12, 2023. Chiara Petrolini, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, had to go to prison.
The 21-year-old accused of voluntary homicide aggravated by premeditation and the suppression of a corpse for one of the two newborns found in the home garden and the concealment of the second newborn. The Parma Public Prosecutor’s Office had appealed against the order of last 19 September in the part in which the investigating judge had rejected the request for prison in relation to the crime of suppression of the corpse for the newborn found on 7 August, considering it «the less serious crime of concealment of a corpse”. The other point to which the Parma Prosecutor’s Office had appealed is related to the house arrest ordered for the 21-year-old for the crimes of aggravated voluntary homicide and suppression of a corpse, instead of prison. Faced with the prosecutor’s request, the investigating judge had considered that house arrest was sufficient to guarantee the precautionary needs. The Prosecutor’s Office had not shared the judge’s approach, both with regard to the burial of 7 August, «which, in the intentions of the suspect, would have been definitive, in the sense that that burial appeared suitable to never be discovered, as happened for the burial on May 12, 2023 and “only due to the impromptu intervention of the dogs did it come to light”.
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