Vanessa Simonini, killed 20 years by a « friend »: the man released after 16 years, arrested in Pisa for sexual violence
Vanessa Simonini was killed in the province of Lucca in 2009 when he was 20 years old. His killer, Simone Baroncini, was sentenced to 16 years of age and returned free in 2022. He was now arrested for three cases of alleged sexual violence in Pisa
That of Vanessa Simonini in 2009 was One of the first feminicides of the province of Luccaand also for this reason the death of the young woman aroused at the time an enormous emotional wave.
The methods of the murder, immediately, aroused a strong indignation: after strangling Vanessa along a secondary way, Simone Baroncini (now arrested for sexual violence in Pisa after he took place on the buttocks with a syringe three women) He headed for the Breast of the Serchio, simulating an aggression by strangers who, however, was soon forced to retract, in the face of the investigators’ questions. « It was I who killed her, » he confessed at the end.
The murder
Vanessa had been a friend of Baroncini for some time and had not understood the real intentions of that man much bigger than her. On the evening of December 7, 2009 His « friend », originally from Pisa, goes on to take her home to bring her to the home of a common friend: they must define together the last details of a trip that they planned for the day after Rome.
Instead Baroncini heads in a dark and isolated road, Making forward with Vanessa: the girl defends herself, invites him to stop, but in the face of her insistence he gets off the car and starts running.
The man, faster and stronger than her, He reaches it and strangles it. After that, the charge on the car and the door on the thrush of the nearby Serchio riverwhere he first tries to commit suicide with the car’s exhaust gas and then warns the carabinieri, stageing a robbery over murder by unknown persons.
A few hours later the truth confesses: « It was me. »
The process
Baroncini is condemned At first instance at 30 years of prison with the abbreviated rite that guarantees a third discount of the sentence.
On appeal, the years in prison become 16confirmed in the Court of Cassation.
Baroncini served his sentence and He returned free in 2022.
Mother courage
The femicide of Vanessa and Lucca and Province has also become a symbol over time, of the battle against violence against women thanks above all to the courage of the mother Maria Grazia Forli, who in the following years has been involved in the first person to keep the memory of the very young daughter and the request for justice for women under the subject of violence: writes books, founded the association « Do not forget me », makes meetings in the schools and arrives until Parliament.
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