“No trace of psychiatric pathology” –

Moussa Sangare acted with “lucidity” and his mental state was “fully intact”: this was written down in black and white by investigating judge Raffaella Mascarino, in the order validating the arrest with which she ordered that Sangare, a self-confessed criminal of the murder of Sharon Verzeni, remain in prison. Evidence confirmed by the various measures taken by the 30-year-old both before and after committing the crime – such as cutting his hair or modifying his bike – and by the psychiatrists of the Bergamo penitentiary who met him immediately after his entry, last Friday, and for whom there is “no trace of psychiatric pathology, neither remote nor recent”.

In addition to confirming what he had already confessed to investigators, in the preliminary interrogation that lasted about two hours, Sangare also explained that he had buried the murder weapon on the banks of the Adda River to keep a sort of “memory” of what he had done. While in the occupied house where he lived in Suisio, the RIS of Parma carried out a long inspection, isolating some evidence considered to be of investigative interest.

On the night of the crime, which took place between July 29 and 30 in Terno d’Isola, Sangare had targeted five other people – three men and two boys, not yet identified – also practicing hitting a statue with the knife he had taken from home after spending the evening with friends in a park in Medolago during which he had not drunk or taken drugs. During his wandering of about 35-40 minutes, the 30-year-old – the investigating judge reconstructs – had identified Sharon – a woman alone, who was walking with headphones – as the “right subject” and also the “most vulnerable” on whom to pour that “desire to really experience strong emotions, capable of unleashing that rush of adrenaline in his soul, followed by a state of well-being and comfort”.

A homicidal act “carried out in the total absence of any understandable motivation, in a completely random, absolutely gratuitous, not to mention downright capricious manner”, we read in the precautionary measure, where Sangare is described as “a subject who, often in the grip of boredom, not having a stable job, imbued with the values ​​transmitted” by a musical genre “that exalts violence, extreme sex, the need to prevail through subjugation over others belonging to a group and in general of society” such as trap and “who had devised as a pastime that of throwing knives at a rudimentary cardboard silhouette, with a cushion on the top with a human face drawn on it.

“The thought that the existence of a young woman was cut short to satisfy motivations of this kind, leaves one frankly astonished”, is the thought of the judge who, as requested by the prosecutor Emanuele Marchisio, also recognized the aggravating circumstances of premeditation and futile motives. For the defense attorney Giacomo Maj, on the contrary, that evening Sangare “did not go out with the aim of killing someone. He went out with a ‘feeling’, a ‘mood’, he calls it, that forced him to do something bad but in an imprecise way, not what or against whom”. The lawyer will evaluate whether to request a psychiatric evaluation, while the prosecutor – as far as we know – does not intend to request a consultation. The 30-year-old will soon be transferred for safety reasons from Bergamo to another prison, after the anger and intolerance shown by other inmates with the throwing of burning spray cans.