The murder of Matias: murdered at 10 years by his father
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Mirko Tomkow, 44, was arrested for killing his 10-year-old son Matias with a stab in the throat. He had received a ban on approaching the places frequented by the child and his wife: according to the investigators he would have wanted to take revenge on the woman, who in turn may have escaped death.
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Mirko Tomkow, 44, was placed in the state of stop and is currently guarded at the Belcolle hospital in Viterbo. The man is positive for Covid but no longer in isolation having passed 21 days, but he is hospitalized because he is still unconscious: the toxicological tests will have to clarify whether he has attempted suicide by gulping down some substance. The 44 is accused of killing his 10-year-old son Matias in the house that until recently he shared with his partner and child a Care of Vetralla, fraction of the municipality in the province of Viterbo. Unharmed the victim’s mother who, having found her dead son with a deep cut in the throat, inflicted him with a kitchen knife, and is still in a state of shock. The husband, on the other hand, was lying unconscious on the floor in another room, perhaps she too was a designated victim of his plan.
The marshal: “I heard my mother was calm on Monday”
The hours pass and the dynamics of what happened yesterday afternoon are gradually clarified, thanks to the progress of the investigations. Matias was picked up at school as was often the case by a relative – already overheard by the police – and then left at home awaiting the arrival of his mother from work. When the father arrived he would therefore have been alone in the house, and perhaps he himself opened the door to his father as it was not yet clear whether the man was still in possession of the keys to the house. The carabinieri of the Vetralla station explained that they constantly monitor the situation of the family after the ban on expulsion. Marshal Stefania Pandolfi has explained: “She was not alone, we monitored the situation constantly. We spoke on Monday, she was calm and she did not report anything that could alarm us”,
The testimony of a neighbor
According to several witnesses, he was seen going up and down in front of the child’s school before moving into the house. The little boy was taken to school by a relative and then brought home to await his mother’s return from work, it is not clear if left with his father. According to what is emerging in these hours Mirko would have lost his job recently and would have problems with alcohol, showing violent behavior in the home on more than one occasion. This morning Fanpage.it met a neighbor of the family, still upset by what happened: “We heard the screams of the mother and we ran”. The two women had lived for a couple of years a few meters from each other, they knew each other and the lady talks about “the Sundays spent together” and about that smiling child, whom she called “hubby” to make him amused and blush.
Murder child Vetralla, the antiabus marshal: “I talked to my mother on Monday, she was calm”
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Today city mourning in Vetralla
The whole local community is not aware of what happened, particularly affected the school community where Matias and his family were inserted. Mayor Sandrino Aquilani proclaimed city mourning. “The city is saddened and bewildered – he told Fanpage.it – We have never had a tragedy of this magnitude. By sight we knew each other, here it is like a condominium and we all know each other a little. I learned the news while I was in the municipality“. At 12.00 the shutters were lowered and a minute of silence, while at 18.00 there will be a mass in support of the child’s family.
The investigation into the murder of Matias
Although there are several things still to be clarified on the dynamics of what happened, the investigators are currently convinced that the man would have broken the Covid isolation to take revenge on his partner by killing the child. The 44-year-old had received a ban on approaching from the court to his wife and child since 10 September, following the verification of episodes of domestic violence. In particular, from what we learned, the ban on approaching would have come after the reports arrived from people close to the family, to then be confirmed by the woman
The principal of the school: “We told the classmates that he is gone”
The dean of the primary school Derna Peruzzi and Saturno Cecchini of Vetralla, that Matias attended, explaining that the institute is intervening to provide support and help to the pupils and their families, with a psychologist. “When we told Matias’ classmates that he is gone, they already knew it – he explained – we asked them to tell us a memory, a game played together, some nice phrases he said that made them have fun when they played “. The intent is” to listen to them and to let them bring out their emotions “. .
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