Milan, 18 Mar (LaPresse) – ‘It wasn't me, there is no evidence against me’. This, in short, is the meaning of the spontaneous statements made in court by Moussa Sangare, in prison for the murder of 33-year-old Sharon Verzeni, who was stabbed to death on the night of 29-30 July in Terno d'Isola, Bergamo, while she was walking home. Sangare recanted his confession, made last summer after his arrest, during the second hearing of the trial before the Bergamo Court of Assizes in which he is charged with the multiple murder of the barmaid, during which an expert witness was appointed to decide whether he was of sound mind at the time of the crime. After the party assignments, the young man asked to be allowed to speak, then spoke for about 15 minutes. In a sometimes confused speech, Sangare – who had already proclaimed his innocence during the first hearing – gave a new version of what had happened, explaining, for example, that he had disposed of his clothes in the river and cut his hair for fear of being found by the real murderer. ‘I do not comment on his sentences, it was not an agreed intervention,’ his lawyer, Giacomo Maj, confined himself to stating at the end of the hearing. The psychiatric expertise, which will also have to establish Sangare's capacity to stand trial, will begin on 1 April and has been entrusted to consultant Giuseppina Paulillo. The next hearing is scheduled for 22 September.
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