Tulissi murder: Supreme Court quashes Calligaris conviction, finds he "did not commit the act"
The Supreme Court of Cassation has quashed without remand the conviction of Paolo Calligaris to 16 years' imprisonment for the murder of his partner Tatiana Tulissi, killed in Manzano in 2008.
Seventh verdict for Calligaris: Supreme Court acquits him
The first criminal section of the Supreme Court of Cassation has quashed without remand the conviction sentence against Paolo Calligaris, establishing that the defendant "did not commit the act". This was communicated by Calligaris's lawyers, advocates Rino Battocletti, Alessandro Gamberini and Cristina Salon, according to ANSA Cronaca.
Calligaris had been sentenced in March 2025 by the Court of Assise Appeal of Venice to 16 years' imprisonment for the death of Tatiana Tulissi, aged 37, killed on 11 November 2008 in Manzano, in the province of Udine. The woman had returned home from work at a company in Percoto when she was first struck on the head with a blunt object, then shot down with three shots from a .38 calibre pistol. The weapon was never found.
For the entrepreneur this is the seventh verdict in a long and highly circumstantial judicial proceeding, in which he has always proclaimed his innocence. The trial began in Udine, with a conviction at a preliminary hearing in 2019. In 2021 the Court of Assise Appeal of Trieste acquitted him with the formula "because the act does not exist", but the Supreme Court quashed that decision in 2022 and remitted the case to Venice.
The Court of Assise Appeal of Venice confirmed the 16-year sentence on 20 December 2023. The defence appealed again to the Supreme Court and on 13 September 2024 the section presided over by Rossella Catena quashed the second-instance judgement again, ordering a further remand. The new Venice section returned to convicting Calligaris to 16 years in March 2025. With today's ruling, the Supreme Court definitively closes the proceedings in his favour.
Source: ANSA Cronaca