Italian Nurse Strangles Doctor Girlfriend, Claims She Gave Him Coronavirus

[Sugar Cookie]

An Italian nurse who claimed his doctor girlfriend gave him the coronavirus strangled her in a fit of rage, according to a report.

Antonio De Pace, 28, called the police Tuesday and confessed that he had killed his partner, Lorena Quaranta, over the infection, The Sun and local media reported.

Police arrived at their apartment and found Quaranta, 27, dead and De Pace on the floor with his wrists cut.

“I killed her because she gave me coronavirus,” De Pace told investigators after being taken into custody.

Prosecutors found both De Pace and Quaranta had tested negative for the virus and called De Pace’s claims “nonsense,” according to the Italian news agency Adnkronos.

The couple worked together in a Sicilian hospital fighting the pandemic in one of the worst-hit countries, where more than 13,000 people have died due to COVID-19.

De Pace was rushed to the hospital where they had worked, with their colleagues managing to treat him and save his life, according to The Sun.

Italian nurse strangles doctor girlfriend, claims she gave him coronavirus

An Italian nurse who claimed his doctor girlfriend gave him the coronavirus strangled her in a fit of rage, according to a report. Antonio De Pace, 28, called the police Tuesday and confessed that …

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[Sejanus]

Covid-19: The New Excuse

 

[Spider]

And he tested negative. Piece of shit. He should be executed for wasting resources that are needed like his late girlfriends skills.

 

[JackBurton]

Italian men are some of the scummiest, most vile men on the planet.

That said, gotta give him some major kudos, not TOO uncommon to hear about female nurses shackin up with docs, but a male nurse jackpotting it like that!??? Good fuckin work scumbag.

 

[Satanica]

Complete with half-assed suicide attempt.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

July 23 2024

The Italian supreme court has overturned a life sentence for murder, ruling that a lower court had failed to consider Covid-induced stress as a mitigating factor when reaching its verdict.

Antonio De Pace, a nurse, had been sentenced to life imprisonment for strangling his girlfriend, Lorena Quaranta, on the night of March 31, 2020, in the apartment they shared in the Sicilian town of Furci Siculo, south of Messina. Afterwards, De Pace attempted suicide before calling the police.

The supreme court said the Messina appeal court had failed to give adequate weight to extenuating circumstances when it confirmed De Pace’s life sentence.

The court said the murder had occurred at a dramatic moment in history when the whole of humanity had been called on “to react to a hitherto unknown, invasive and seemingly unstoppable danger”. De Pace had experienced psychological distress that had gradually evolved into anxiety and anguish during Italy’s pandemic lockdown, it said.

According to the supreme court, De Pace had attempted to deal with the stress by planning to abandon Quaranta, a medical student who had contracted Covid, and returning to his family in Calabria, but his relatives had persuaded him to remain with his partner. His plan to leave had been a misguided response to the pressure caused by a situation in which it was impossible to obtain medical assistance beyond a phone call to a doctor, the court said.

The supreme court also ruled out the notion that the murder was a gender-based crime of passion, given the solid relationship between the two partners and their respective families.

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Killer’s life sentence overturned for murder ‘under Covid stress’

Italy’s supreme court has ruled that the anxiety of lockdown could have been a mitigating factor when a nurse strangled his girlfriend

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May 20, 2025

The Court of Cassation has upheld the life sentence for Antonio De Pace, the nurse who murdered his girlfriend, Lorena Quaranta, in March 2020 at their home in Furci Siculo, in the province of Messina. The judges rejected the defense's argument—which cited the defendant's emotional instability, exacerbated by anxiety over potential COVID-19 infection—deeming it inadmissible.

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