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Cristina Mazzotti Murder, Two Life Sentences Handed Down 50 Years Later

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Two Life Sentences 50 Years After Cristina Mazzotti’s Kidnapping and Murder After more than five decades, Italian justice has delivered a definitive sentence in the long-running case of Cristina Mazzotti, the 18-year-old student whose brutal 1975 kidnapping and killing shocked the country and became one of the earliest high-profile crimes linked to the ‘ndrangheta in northern Italy. On February 4, the Corte d’Assise of the Tribunal of Como hande…

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She was held prisoner for a month in a hole where she couldn't stand while her jailers drugged her

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The Assise Court of Como condemns Giuseppe Calabro and Demetrio Latella for the aggravated voluntary murder of the 18-year-old kidnapped in 1975. Prescribed kidnapping for extortion purposes. Acquitted the third defendant

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The 18-year-old student was kidnapped on the evening of June 30, 1975 in Eupilio. The corpse was found on September 1st in a dump. In the classroom in Como also some representatives of the students of the high school Carducci

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The Court of Assizes of Como sentenced to life imprisonment the defendants Giuseppe Calabro and Demetrio Latella for the aggravated murder of Cristina Mazzotti, 18 years old, of which traces were lost in 1975 to Eupilio, in the province of Como. Acquitted by the requalified indictment of Antonio Talia because he did not commit the fact. The court also declared that the "do not have to proceed" against the defendants Calabro and Latella for the c…

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Milan, 4 Feb. (Adnkronos) - The Court of Assise of Como sentenced to life imprisonment the defendants Giuseppe Calabro and Demetrio Latella for the murder ...

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Cristina lived with her family in Milan. In the summer they drove to the villa in Eupilio, a village near Lake Como. That evening she had met with friends and talked until midnight. After that, her friend, her sister and she drove home together. At a junction, however, the road was cut off from a vehicle. Three men jumped out of a hiding place, the young people hit the back seat and ordered them to lower their gaze. One of the armed men sat at t…

·Bolzano, Italy
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iltempo.it broke the news on Wednesday, February 4, 2026.
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