A new, distressing episode of domestic violence shocked the city of Ravenna today, Monday, September 9. In an apartment on Via Colombo Lolli, in the Borgo San Rocco neighborhood, a 78-year-old man suffocated his elderly wife while she was in bed. Shortly after, the man himself called the police, confessing to having committed the tragic act.
The family drama took place in the early afternoon, just after lunchtime. It was around 1:30 pm when the elder pensioner dialed the emergency number 112, telling what had happened. When the police and the 118 paramedics arrived on the scene, there was nothing more that could be done. The woman was already dead, the victim of what appears to be a desperate act. The man was still near his wife’s lifeless body.
According to initial reconstructions, the victim was suffering from a serious pathology for some time and her husband took care of her on a daily basis. A family picture of fragility and illness that, in all likelihood, contributed to triggering an extreme act of desperation. The investigations will now clarify the details of this misfortune. The coroner and the scientific police have already begun the necessary investigations to reconstruct the exact dynamics of what happened.
The public prosecutor on duty, promptly informed of the episode, went to the crime scene to listen to the elderly man’s first statements. The man, previously unknown to the police, made himself I confess of an abominable crime. In an instant he decided to end an entire life, overwhelmed by an unbearable burden of pain and impotence.
The community of Ravenna, shocked by the event, is questioning the root causes of an episode that cannot be reduced to a mere news story. The spotlight is once again on the problem of domestic violence. Above all, in more fragile and unsuspected contexts, pain and desperation can nest anywhere, often resulting in devastating outcomes.
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