A former typographer got 30
years in jail Wednesday for killing a Senegalese street seller
in Florence in March last year.
The appeals court sentence almost doubled the first-instance
sentence of 16 years.
The second sentence recognised "futile motives", which the
first sentence had not.
Roberto Pirrone killed Idy Diene on Florence's Vespucci
bridge.
The murder sparked days of protests by the Senegalese
community in the Tuscan capital.
Pirrone told police that he had left home planning to commit
suicide amid economic problems but then changed his mind and
decided to shoot a random passerby so as to go to jail and no
longer be a burden on his family.
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