ACQUITTED OF CHARGE OF STALKING AND ATTEMPTED MURDER
MAJDI ABDERRAZZAK’S INNOCENCE ESTABLISHED
On July 4, 2022, the Court of Syracuse established the innocence of Mr. Majdi Aberrazzak, defended by defensive lawyer Stefano Francesco Pipitone.
After 6 years of a complex judicial journey, the nightmare is over for Majdi, who was acquitted by the formula “because the fact does not exist” of the charges of persecutory acts and attempted murder.
In July 2016, the alleged victim, Mounia Ouassa, was found by Carabinieri officers inside the home of Majdi, her ex-boyfriend, unconscious and with a stab wound to her neck.
Ouassa, once she came to her senses, accused her ex boyfriend of having stalked her for months and tried to kill her by cutting her throat with a shard of glass.
From the first moment, Majdi instead represented to the Judicial Police and the prosecuting authority a different story, according to which that girl had fabricated everything, injuring her neck herself in order to ruin her ex’s life.
An absurd, far-fetched defense, which cost the suspect immediate arrest and several months of pre-trial detention, spent in the Syracuse Prison House, (so-called Cavadonna Prison).
Six years later, after more than 12 hearings and a trial dialectic that was at times tense, characterized by twists and turns and irreconcilable contradictions, the evidence proved the verisimilitude of the version of facts told from the first moment by the defendant. Majdi was acquitted because the fact does not exist.
Pending the motivations for the judgment, at present we can only share the main defense arguments, centered on three arguments.
The Logical evidence.
Monia Ouassa complained that she had been the victim of stalking, that she had been subjected with death threats such that she lived in a state of perpetual terror, so intense that she no longer left the house unless escorted.
Yet, on July 7, 2016, that same “terrified” girl showed up at Majdi’s house alone, hiding from everyone where she was going. Indeed, Ouassa was aware that day that she would find her ex-boyfriend inside his home without the presence of his habitual roommate, who had returned to his own country.
The second illogical circumstance that emerged in the trial concerns Majdi’s behavior. The defendant, an irregular non-EU citizen on Italian territory, on the day the events occurred, in the presence of his ex-girlfriend who was unconscious on the ground, bleeding from the throat, upon the arrival of the Carabinieri officers not only did not run away. But he even went to them, handing over the “murder weapon” (a shard of glass) with his own hands.
The Declarative evidence.
By a strange combination of events, contrary to what Ouassa imagined, Majdi was not in the house alone on July 7, 2016. In fact, it had happened that shortly before he had been visited by a compatriot, who was visiting him for a few days.
The guest, a direct witness who was present at the time of the events, has always recounted what he saw with his own eyes: Mounia Ouassa, after entering the house, injured herself, cutting the left side of her neck, just below the ear, with a small piece of glass.
On closer inspection, this is the same version given by Majdi to the Carabinieri in the immediate aftermath. The timely intervention of the Judicial Police and Majdi’s immediate arrest make it possible to rule out any risk of contamination of the testimony. However, that testimony remained in a drawer for years. Till the trial.
The Scientific evidence.
The keystone of the trial was the scientific and technical consultancy prepared by Dr. Cataldo Raffino, a medical examiner.
The consultant’s long and complex examination introduced into the trial the scientific evidence of the non-compatibility of the characteristics of that specific throat cut with the action (assault) of a third party. The morphology of the cut, the location, the traces of blood all converge toward a single conclusion: that wound was self-made by the victim herself.
The summary of this press release can never do justice to the sufferings and the mental agony endured by an innocent man unjustly accused, dragged despite himself in a 6-year-long court case through a complex of events worthy of a movie script or the publication of a book.
One thing is certain. On July 4, Justice was restored.
Abderrazzak Majdi is not guilty.
