Overview
- The court convicted the 17-year-old of voluntary homicide and illegal knife possession, sentencing him to 11 years and 6 months.
- Prosecutors had requested about 21 years, and judges reclassified the separate count involving Fallou’s friend from attempted murder to serious injuries.
- Fallou was fatally stabbed on 4 September 2024 in via Piave after intervening to help a 17-year-old friend during a pursuit and fight.
- The victim’s parents denounced the outcome as too lenient, with his father calling the sentence “a shame” outside the Bologna juvenile court.
- Evidence presented described months of harassment of the defendant; he said he carried a knife out of fear and told investigators he “struck blindly.”