Suspect acquitted over Pierina Paganelli murder case

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Suspect acquitted over Pierina Paganelli murder case

Justice won says Louis Dassilva after release

ROME,

10 June 2026, 09:54

ANSA English Desk

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A 35-year-old Senegalese man, Louis

Dassilva, was acquitted of the 2023 murder of his elderly

neighbour Pierina Paganelli in Rimini early on Wednesday by a

court on the Adriatic city after 16 hours of deliberations.

The case of Paganelli, who was stabbed 29 times, has gripped the

attention of the Italian public over the last three years.

Prosecutors did not find forensic evidence on the victim's body

implicating Dassilva and their case was based principally on the

testimony of Paganelli's daughter-in-law Manuela Bianchi, who

found the dead body in a garage on October 4, 2023.

Bianchi was having an affair with Dassilva and told

investigators she had met him shortly before finding Paganelli's

body.

She said Dassilva had told her what to do and what to say to the

police.

Among the evidence presented during the trial was recordings of

wiretaps in which the defendant asked a witch doctor to do

voodoo rites to put curses on the police and prosecutor working

in the case.

"Justice has been done. Justice has won," Dassilva, who had been

in prison since July 2024 and risked a life sentence, said after

leaving jail.

"It's the rebirth of justice".

After being released Dassilva was embraced by his Italian wife

Valeria Bartolucci, who stood by him throughout the trial.

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