A 29-year-old Chechen man got 23 years
in jail in absentia Tuesday for beating to death 21-year-old
Florentine man Niccolò Ciatti outside a Spanish disco in August
2017.
Rome prosecutors had requested life for Rassoul Bissoultanov,
who went on the lam last August after being sentenced to 15
years by a Spanish court for the same crime.
A Rome assizes court convicted Bissoultanov of murder in the
fight in Lloret de Mar but ruled out aggravating circumstances,
which is why he was not sentenced to life in jail.
Ciatti's father Luigi said after the sentence was read out
Tuesday evening: "It is certainly not the life sentence we
thought would come for this murderer.
"It is certainly a more significant sentence than the one that
was imposed in Spain. I think the court recognised mitigating
factors that I honestly understand little about. What
Bissoultanov did to Niccolò I think is of a unique cruelty."
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