Trame Trial: Curses and film lists found in Stasiuk's diary
In court in Trieste, the diary of Olena Stasiuk emerges, containing curse rituals against her ex-husband Paolo and a list of twenty films about child murders. The woman is accused of killing her nine-year-old son Giovanni in Muggia on 12 November.
Trial for the murder of Giovanni Trame
The green diary found in Olena Stasiuk's flat was at the centre of the hearing held today before the Court of Assise in Trieste. According to ilpiccolo.it, the document contains notes in Russian — appointments, personal notes, propitious rituals and curses — written by the accused woman in the months preceding the crime.
The fifty-five-year-old Ukrainian woman is accused of aggravated voluntary homicide for slashing the throat of her son Giovanni Trame, aged 9, on 12 November 2024 in the flat in Muggia where she lived. Inspector Manlio Granbassi of the Homicide Squad at Trieste Police Headquarters reported that from May 2024 onwards, after obtaining unsupervised visits from the Court, Stasiuk had begun recording a series of rituals and curses against those she considered her enemies.
Among the materials examined, a list of twenty thriller films emerged, mostly focused on murders, deaths and disappearances of children and adolescents. "Disturbing titles in relation to what happened," the inspector observed in court. The woman had used one of the weekly unsupervised visits — obtained months earlier from the Court during the civil proceedings with her ex-husband Paolo Trame over custody of the child — to commit the crime.
On 10 November 2024, the day before the murder, Stasiuk wrote an anathema against her ex-husband in her diary. Inspector Granbassi read the text in court: "Ritual for a curse against Paolo. Hold a spoonful of salt in your fist. Go outside where there is earth and shake it from your hands. As the salt dissolves in the earth, so my pain returns to my cursed enemy Paolo three times. May he then choke and his body dry up. And so it shall be." The ex-husband Paolo Trame is a party to the civil proceedings in the trial.
In the diary's notes, the name Giovanni appears frequently, linked to the concept of lying. Stasiuk associated lies with the dispute with her ex-husband and the custody case. On 28 May 2024 she had written: "8 years with educators – their visits fraud always cancel" and "Lies in front of the judge always." The expert appointed by the preliminary investigation judge recognised the woman as having a partial mental infirmity caused by a serious paranoid personality disorder.
Source: Google News IT — Crime (it)