The jury court in Udine, located in the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, this week sentenced two young Moroccans accused of the murder of an Italian citizen to the maximum penalty. As reported by the local private television station Telefriuli, Wail Boulaied (22) and Mohammed Rabih (23) were found guilty of the murder of Marcella Boraso, who was killed in her home in Portogruaro on the night of 21-22 July 2020.
The verdict confirms the Pordenone prosecutor’s claim. The court sentenced more harshly for Boulaied, for whom the prosecution had demanded only 30 years in prison, the medium continued, elaborating that the defendant had “confessed himself” to the crime in order to cooperate with the authorities. “The judges considered the aggravating circumstances to outweigh the mitigating circumstances and ordered that the compensation of the joint plaintiff be decided civilly,” the source added.
Telefriuli reports that “what happened in Via della Croce Rossa in Portogruaro was a particularly heinous crime”, adding that “the victim was first tortured with a knife and then killed with a hammer in the bathroom”. “After the murder, the woman’s flat, from which items had been stolen, was set on fire”.
Wail Boulaied’s defence had asked for the minimum sentence. As for Mohammed Rabih, who had always claimed to have had nothing to do with the murder, his lawyers had asked for acquittal and, in the alternative, amendment to accessory to murder, the same source points out. Yabiladi
