The prosecution on Friday
requested a 27-year prison sentence against Father Gratien Alabi
for the 2014 murder of 50-year-old Guerrina Piscaglia.
The prosecutor said in a seven-hour closing argument that
the victim was obsessed with the friar, who killed her in the
course of a violent argument.
Alabi was arrested in April 2015 on charges of murder and
tampering with a corpse.
The housewife and mother of a 22-year-old son vanished
after she went to the rectory of the local church after a family
lunch on the afternoon of May 1, 2014.
Extensive police searches using dogs conducted in the
surrounding countryside failed to turn up any trace of
Piscaglia, who lived in the hamlet of Ca' Raffaello in Arezzo
province.
Prosecutors later placed Alabi, a Congolese national, under
investigation on suspicion of kidnapping and possible murder
after he told a TV show about missing persons that Piscaglia had
told him she was pregnant and that he was the father.
Alabi denies having had sex with Piscaglia.
A search of the friar's home, car, and belongings
reportedly turned up a series of photos of nuns in a state of
undress on his computer.
A Romanian prostitute reportedly told police Alabi was one
of her habitual clients, paying her 500 euros per session.
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