Milan, 20 May (LaPresse) – The Milan public prosecutor, Andrea Zanoncelli, has sought a 12-year prison sentence for Alessandro Chiani and a 10-year sentence for Ahmed Atia during the first hearing of the fast-track trial against the two defendants before Judge Alberto Carboni for the stabbing of Davide Simone Cavallo, the 22-year-old Bocconi University student, who was attacked on the night of 12 October 2025 in the Corso Como area: five youths from the Monza area attacked him to rob him of €50, leaving him paralysed. The prosecution is charging attempted murder. “To be told that a stab wound was inflicted as a prank at two in the morning is something that really makes you say ‘enough is enough’: there is a limit even to the right to self-defence,” said Luca Degani, the victim’s father’s lawyer, speaking on the sidelines of the hearing. Degani outlined the consequences for the family: the 19-year-old brother has left Milan and works as a labourer with his father in a company 1,200 kilometres away; the mother has given up her job as an estate agent and now looks after her son full-time; the father, aged 60, who had seen both his sons build a future for themselves in the capital, is looking for a flat suitable for a disabled person. “The son has forgiven,” the lawyer continued, “but the father and mother cannot.” He then added that the parents should not be treated as if there were no injured party. “The truth justifies Davide’s forgiveness; without the truth, forgiveness makes no sense,” the lawyer concluded.
Milan, stabbing on Corso Como: prosecutor seeks 12 years for Chiani and 10 for Atia
Milan, 20 May (LaPresse) – The Milan public prosecutor, Andrea Zanoncelli, has sought a 12-year prison sentence for Alessandro Chiani and a 10-year sentence for Ahmed Atia during the first hearing of the fast-track trial against the two defendants before Judge Alberto Carboni for the stabbing of Davide Simone Cavallo, the 22-year-old Bocconi University student, who was attacked on the night of 12 October 2025 in the Corso Como area: five youths from the Monza area attacked him to rob him of €50, leaving him paralysed. The prosecution is charging attempted murder. “To be told that a stab wound was inflicted as a prank at two in the morning is something that really makes you say ‘enough is enough’: there is a limit even to the right to self-defence,” said Luca Degani, the victim’s father’s lawyer, speaking on the sidelines of the hearing. Degani outlined the consequences for the family: the 19-year-old brother has left Milan and works as a labourer with his father in a company 1,200 kilometres away; the mother has given up her job as an estate agent and now looks after her son full-time; the father, aged 60, who had seen both his sons build a future for themselves in the capital, is looking for a flat suitable for a disabled person. “The son has forgiven,” the lawyer continued, “but the father and mother cannot.” He then added that the parents should not be treated as if there were no injured party. “The truth justifies Davide’s forgiveness; without the truth, forgiveness makes no sense,” the lawyer concluded.
