Paderno massacre, court: ‘Boy was lucid, killed in a ruthless manner’

Milan, 29 September (LaPresse) – Riccardo Chioroni, now 18, was ‘lucid’ when he killed his family in their home in Paderno Dugnano, in the province of Milan, between 31 August and 1 September 2024. ‘Although the defendant was driven by an extravagant thought, because it is clear that believing he could achieve immortality by eliminating his family is not a healthy goal, this thought was, yes, bizarre but still under Riccardo’s control, and he chose to nurture it and acted consistently with that idea,’ reads the reasoning behind the ruling, which LaPresse has seen. In committing the crime, as Judge Paola Ghezzi writes, ‘certainly’ “powerful emotional states must have played a role, a large dose of narcissistic anger and hatred, accumulated with each frustration, which led to the act being carried out with such aggression. This can be inferred from the particularly ruthless manner of the execution: however inexperienced one may be in killing, such ferocity and variety of injuries (especially towards his brother and mother) cannot fail to be fuelled by such feelings.”