An Italian man who stabbed his girlfriend to death 57 times in 2017 after she scolded him for cooking crumbs will be transferred from prison to house arrest, a court in Turin has ruled, arguing that he is obese and that prison food makes him life is at risk. reports loopciting La Repubblica.

On June 11, 2017, Dimitri Fricano stabbed 28-year-old Erica Preti 57 times in San Teodoro (Sassari), shortly before going to the beach, because she scolded him for having too many crumbs.

In 2020, the Court of Appeal of Cagliari sentenced Fricano to 30 years in prison.

“The judges decided he needed to be taken care of,” defense attorneys Alessandra Guarini and Roberto Onida respond.

The document, in which the court assesses that Fricano, who is now 35 years old, is not “compatible with the penitentiary regime”, refers to various health problems of the man, specifying that from 120 kilograms when he entered the penitentiary, he reached 200 and that it involves difficulty walking, in addition to the impossibility of following a prison diet, which poses a “cardiovascular risk to life”.