Three Carabinieri killed in a farmhouse explosion in 2025. First hearing in the Court of Assizes in Verona.
The trial of siblings Franco, Dino, and Maria Luisa Ramponi, aged 66, 64, and 60, began today before the Court of Assizes in Verona. The three are accused of being responsible for the explosion of a farmhouse in Castel D'Azzano (Verona) on October 14, 2025, which claimed the lives of three Carabinieri officers.
The victims are Marco Piffari, 56, commander of the Operational Support Team of the Fourth Carabinieri Battalion Veneto; Valerio Daprà, 56, a First Response Unit operator; and Davide Bernardello, 36. The explosion also injured 25 other members of the intervening task force, including military personnel and firefighters.
The Ramponi siblings must answer for the crimes of massacre, possession of explosives, and resisting a public official. According to reports, the defense may request a psychiatric evaluation of the three defendants.
The tragedy of Castel D'Azzano has its roots in the night of October 14, 2025, when a team of Carabinieri went to a farmhouse owned by the Ramponi brothers to carry out a search and an eviction operation. The officers, unaware of the danger, entered an environment that investigators believe had been previously saturated with gas and filled with gas cylinders and Molotov cocktails.
The ensuing explosion caused the immediate death of three Carabinieri and injured 25 other rescuers, in what has been classified as one of the most serious episodes of aggression against law enforcement in recent years. The act is interpreted as a form of extreme and premeditated resistance to the execution of a judicial order.
The trial opening today represents the first step towards establishing criminal responsibility for an event that deeply shook the Carabinieri force and public opinion. The judicial proceedings must now clarify the dynamics of what happened, the motivations of the accused, and evaluate the requests of the defense teams, including a possible assessment of their mental capacity and will at the time of the events.
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