“The conduct of Antonio Ciontoli was therefore not only absolutely undue but characterized by obstinacy and ruthlessness, even in hiding what really happened, so that it seems completely unreasonable to envisage, as the defense does, that he had hoped in his heart that Marco Vannini would not would be dead”. This is what the judges of the Fifth Criminal Section of the Cassation write in the reasons for the sentence pronounced on May 3 last with which they confirmed the 14-year sentence for Antonio Ciontoli, accused of voluntary murder with possible intent, for the death of Marco Vannini, the 21 year old killed by a gunshot on the night between 17 and 18 May 2015 while he was at his girlfriend’s house in Ladispoli, on the Roman coast. The supreme judges, rejecting the appeals of the accused, had made definitive the sentence of 9 years and 4 months imposed last September, at the second appeal process, to the two children of Ciontoli, Martina and Federico and to his wife Maria Pezzillo, by competition anomalous in voluntary homicide. “Ciontoli was well aware of having hit Marco Vannini with a firearm and of the minimum distance from which the shot had been fired; he was also aware – the judges write in the 62 pages of motivations – that the bullet had remained inside the Vannini’s body, as his son Federico had also pointed out to him after the cartridge case was found, and, although the wound had stopped bleeding after being tamponade, he necessarily imagined, representing himself and, despite this, accepting the occurrence of the event that that bullet could be the cause of internal bleeding. “