Thirty stab wounds. A terrible violence. it all happened in front of some amazed, incredulous passers-by. Who saw a man kill a 69-year-old at the entrance to her shoe shop in via Colombo, in the heart of Genoa, which yesterday, around 7:20 pm, was rather deserted due to restrictions. After being stabbed, Clara Ceccarelli, a 69-year-old merchant, collapsed on the floor and died waiting for the ambulance. Someone, in vain, tried to chase the killer who managed to disappear after a few tens of meters, turning the corner towards Via della Consolazione, not far from Piazza Brignole, the area where the victim himself lived. The Flying Squad investigates the crime.
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The investigations
All the suspicions focus on her ex-partner who has been haunting her for about a year, since their relationship ended. A few days ago the man, a sixty-year-old craftsman, was caught urinating on the shutter of Clara’s shop. And on Wednesday the police had intervened in a school in the east where he had entered to kill himself trying to jump from a window reached by climbing an external staircase. To the agents, who had managed to dissuade him, he had said he had lost his job due to the crisis from Covid. His call for a new job had been picked up by some Genoese news sites that dealt with his case. After getting off the ladder and calming down, the craftsman accepted the invitation of the same agents to be admitted to psychiatry from where he had been discharged after a visit. It later emerged that the economic difficulties he had spoken of stemmed not from the crisis due to the pandemic, but from the vice of gambling.
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The testimonials
Dismayed in front of the Jolly Calzature shop – which Chiara, a thirty-year-old son who lived in the house with his elderly father, had been leading for many years – relatives and friends arrived. The man was always here and bothered her, he had lost his mind, the street traders told the police. We knew that he had problems with him but we didn’t think they could get to this point, said other shopkeepers who arrived immediately after the crime. A cousin of the victim, in tears, says they had broken up but he always telephoned her, harassed her. He had done so much, I know he was stealing from the house. She couldn’t stand it any longer and that was why she ended the story. I had seen her today and she was quiet.
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The wanted killer
Then a friend also arrives, her name is Gianna and she doesn’t know that Clara has just been killed. When they tell her she faint and they have to support her. She cries and says: That didn’t leave her alone and for this reason she had taken precautions, she always looked around even when she was here in the shop. Last night Clara was tidying up, waiting to lower the shutters, when the man who killed her with the thirty stab wounds, in the neck and abdomen, arrived. She tried to defend herself from that fury and her screams drew passers-by who saw her collapse. Then the hunt for the former partner started. .
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February 19, 2021 (change February 19, 2021 | 22:37)
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