The Court of Girona sentenced Rassoul Bissoultanov, the 28-year-old martial arts expert, who killed Niccolò Ciatti with a kick in the head. The 22 year old from Scandicci was on the ground, helpless, in front of a nightclub in Lloret de Mar. The murder on the night between 11 and 12 August 2017, almost 5 years ago, during the last evening of Niccolò’s holiday on the Costa Brava with his friends.
Chechen Bissoultanov was found guilty of willful murder. The prosecution has asked for 24 years in prison, in the next few days the judge will set a sentence that will have to be between 15 and 25 years. The other accused acquitted, Mostar Magomedov26 years.
The defendant had declared that he did not want to kill, he did not think that a kick could be lethal, trying to avoid the charge of voluntary murder. The prosecution however proved that the man he knew martial arts very well and he knew what he could kill. There is a video with the blow that led to the death of Niccolò Ciatti.
Policemen, security guards and doctors spoke in the testimonies of a “professional blow by a person who knew fighting techniques”. He said the same Filippo Verniani, Ciatti’s friend who was present at the attack. “The Chechen wanted to kill, I have no doubts. He thought that shot and aimed at Niccolò as if he had a rifle in one hand and wanted to shoot him in the head ».
Niccolò’s family members followed the trial in Girona. Mom cried as she told about the phone call she received on the night of the murder. “At 5 am on August 12, 2017, the phone call came informing us that our son was ill. We set out for Spain. We hoped to bring him home alive and instead we are still here mourning him and asking for justice, “he told Corriere della Sera.
In the classroom he met the mothers of the two accused. «I looked at them, step by step, I looked in their eyes for an expression of pity, a sign of empathy but they looked like statues walking. I would have acted as a mother, I would have combined rationality with sentiment. And then I would have approached that mother who had lost the most extraordinary son of her that Heaven could give her, and I would have asked her for forgiveness ».
“We have removed a burden but we feel neither satisfaction nor joy, it is a step towards justice”, said Niccolò’s father, Luigi Ciatti, after the decision of the popular jury, “it is the demonstration that those who carry out these acts must to pay. As long as we have strength we will continue to fight. We know that he has an obligation to sign, he does not have a passport, I believe he has no interest in leaving Spain, but our fear is that he will escape ».
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Source: Vanity Fair
