Aurora’s mother, killed at 13 by her ex: “Reduced sentence, this way femicides will increase.” The appeal to the

Bologna, September 10, 2026 – “Then we expect femicides to decrease?” The mother of Aurora Tila, the 13-year-old thrown from the balcony of the seventh floor by her ex-boyfriend who was 15 at the time, and whose sentence was reduced this morning by the Bologna Court of Appeal from 17 to 15 years imprisonment for the murder, aggravated by stalking, of her daughter on October 25, 2024, does not accept it. “It will only get worse, the sentences are made lightly – adds the mother Morena Corbellini –. Femicides, if this continues, will increase: they know well that the penalties are nothing.”

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Aurora Tila, the 13-year-old killed in Piacenza on October 25, 2024

The appeal to Giorgia Meloni: “Either you intervene… or it will only get worse”

Hence the dramatic appeal to Giorgia Meloni: “Either the Prime Minister intervenes and patches things up – says the mother of Italy’s youngest femicide victim – otherwise they will continue and it will only get worse.”

Aurora is Italy’s youngest femicide victim

“Aurora was only 13 years old, she is the youngest femicide victim in Europe – added the mother’s lawyer, Emilio Malaspina – the family is dissatisfied especially with the request for a reduction made by the General Prosecutor’s Office.”

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The sentence and the reduction of the penalty

Just now the sentence by the Bologna Court of Appeal sentenced the boy to 15 years (15 years old at the time of the facts and now almost 17) who in the first instance had been sentenced to 17 years by the Juvenile Court of Bologna for the murder of the girl. Aurora died after falling from the balcony of the seventh floor of the building where she lived in Piacenza and the young man was convicted of murder aggravated by stalking, itself aggravated by the victim’s minor age and the emotional relationship with the victim.

The boy’s confession via video link

At the first hearing of the appeal trial, last July 13, the boy had confessed to the murder making spontaneous statements via video link. Today the deputy public prosecutor Silvia Marzocchi had requested to sentence the defendant to 15 years and six months.

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