Child tortured and killed at home in Milan, life imprisonment for his father

Life imprisonment for Aljica Hrustic, the 26-year-old of Croatian descent accused of torturing and killing her 2-year-old son on the night of May 22, 2019, in their home in Milan. “I was certainly expecting an important sentence, but not life imprisonment. The fact remains that this is in any case a horrendous tragedy”, said at the end of the hearing Giuseppe De Lalla, the man’s legal defense. “I – explains De Lalla – I don’t think the defensive line has ever given rise to the belief that I underestimated the seriousness of the incident, but frankly I did not expect the sentence for torture, as it was reconstructed in the documents. therefore, I was expecting a life sentence. It seems incredible, but I was hoping for a sentence of 30 years, which I would have considered more relevant to the facts as they have been reconstructed in the documents, beyond the press articles, which often were not faithful ” . “Now – he warns – we await the reasons and in any case we will appeal”. And he remarks: “This process was a bit like an open heart operation to remove a tumor; you had to be very careful.” Certainly there is to “underline that the life of this child was a via crucis to the end, he materially had the esteemed. I – says the lawyer – I do not have the gift of faith, but I still feel like making these parallels” . However, “the application of the law is sometimes unpopular. And in my opinion in a case like this one had to have a lot of courage to apply it correctly.”