The aggravating circumstances of premeditation and cruelty, excluded in the first degree, were recognized by the Milan Court of Appeal that sentenced Davide Fontana to life imprisonment, without daytime isolation, for the brutal murder of Carol Maltesi. The banker, who confessed to the crime, killed her ex-girlfriend on January 11, 2022 in her house in Rescaldina, in the Milan area, hitting her with 13 hammer blows to the head and then slitting her throat.
“I’m happy,” said the victim’s aunt, commenting on the harsher sentence compared to the first degree, when the man was sentenced to 30 years. “No one has the right to take another person’s life. We expected that, even more so after hearing what the defense said this morning, throwing mud on my niece and her grave,” he added, commenting on the passage from the defense statement. . in which she stressed that Carol’s headstone remains temporary. While Attorney General Massimo Gaballo had proposed the maximum sentence, which was later accepted by the Court, the defenders had requested that Fontana be tried by the abbreviated procedure, which was rejected in the preliminary hearing due to the contested aggravating circumstances and that could be the accused will have obtained a reduction of one third of the sentence. In his long speech, lawyer Stefano Paloschi focused precisely on the absence of premeditation, cruelty and useless and abject motives, reminding the Court that “there are no monsters, but only people who do monstrous things.”
At the beginning of the hearing, Fontana wanted to apologize “again to everyone” through spontaneous statements, admitting that he had done something “horrible.” “I know I seem distant when I speak, but instead I feel great suffering. I am firmly determined to want to make amends for my actions to the extent possible,” he said in reference to his request to access a path of restorative justice. . Noting that he “cares nothing” about the money and that he donated his compensation to Carol’s son, Fontana added: “I would give my life to go back. I will spend the rest of my days helping others.” “
The Milanese judges established compensation of 168 thousand euros for the victim’s mother and a provisional amount of 180 thousand euros for her 7-year-old son. “We are moved – said civil lawyers Anna Maria Rago and Manuela Scalia outside the courtroom -, this story moved us deeply. In the first instance there was a secondary victimization of a normal girl like so many others.” In fact, the reasons for the sentence handed down by the Busto Arsizio judges had given rise to numerous controversies, in particular due to the passage in which Carol Maltesi was defined as “uninhibited.” With the help of her ex-boyfriend, the 26-year-old was in charge of creating content for the Onlyfans platform.
On the day of the murder, she and the banker had met expressly to record a video together in which she appeared tied up and with a hood over her head, which had been commissioned by Fontana himself through a false profile. Just during filming, the man hit her on the head with a hammer and then killed her by cutting her neck. After the crime, she cut her body into pieces and stored her remains in a freezer purchased on Amazon for more than two months. Unable to dispose of them by burning them, she finally decided to abandon them in black bags in an open-air landfill in the Brescia area. All this time, she had continued to use her cell phone to respond to messages from friends and family posing as Carol.