The investigators think of a gesture of desperation. She is the hundredth victim of femicide in 2021 in Italy
He went alone directly to the barracks from the scene of the crime to appear and confessed to the carabinieri: “I threw it off the bridge, that’s enough, I couldn’t take it anymore.” Angelo Bernardone, 74, a former metalworker in the industrial area of the Val di Sangro, killed his wife Maria Rita Conese, 72, by throwing her into a stream, a stream perhaps swollen by the rains of these hours, from a height of 10 meters on the provincial road that leads from Casalbordino to Atessa, the woman’s native town. The woman was seriously ill with Alzheimer’s. The woman’s body was recovered around 18.05. The victim, it was ascertained, flew about twenty meters and the woman ended up in the Osento river and died. Where the body was, there were 60 centimeters of water, while the river bed is about 3.5 meters wide. It was the firefighters of Casoli (Ch) who fished out the body, which was taken to the Chieti morgue, where an autopsy will be carried out by the coroner Cristian D’Ovidio.
Mayor Filippo Marinucci was dismayed: «Perhaps a desperate gesture, of impetus: in the village Bernardone was known as a good person. We are really impressed, nothing would have predicted this tragedy ». The man in the barracks was then arrested on charges of voluntary murder: according to an initial reconstruction he would have done everything by himself, at the height of a further discussion aggravated by the altered conditions of the woman who had asked her husband to go to the cemetery of Atessa to find the parents buried there.
In the rooms of the carabinieri station, some sources reveal, the pensioner would have begun to ‘understand’ his gesture after an evident initial state of disarray. The woman was found already dead in the water and the rescues operated by the Casalbordino carabinieri were useless. The intervention of a helicopter was also useless. On the case and on the site of the tragedy, the immediate intervention of the prosecutor of Vasto with the Prosecutor Michele Pecoraro who in the next few hours will formalize the file with the charges, even after the autopsy of the woman who has already been ordered by the magistrate. However, his transfer to prison seems obvious in these hours. At the moment the living conditions of the couple have not been clarified, also because, explained the mayor, the municipal social services do not intervene in cases of Alzheimer’s, however serious.
Despite the outlines described, it is yet another case of femicide in our country, the second of the Christmas holidays after that of Amelia (Terni), where an eighty-year-old retired doctor on the night of Christmas Eve killed his wife, a former teacher, also she is seriously ill. According to the data of the Ministry of the Interior, this Casalbordino could be the 100th case of homicide of a woman in the family context of 2021, also counting that of Amelia: in fact, for the period 1 January – 19 December 2021, 281 homicides were recorded, with 114 female victims. of which 98 killed in the family / emotional context; of these, 66 met death at the hands of the partner / former partner. We are facing, explained the ministry until 19 December, a slight increase “(+ 1%) both in the general trend of events (from 278 to 281) and for female victims (from 113 to 114)” . Data that must now be updated with the last two victims, elderly and with health problems.
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