A few hours earlier, after a day in the mountains of Valsassina, the images posted on social networks ran carefree in the courtyard before the holiday turned into tragedy. Elena and Diego, 12-year-old twins, were killed in the night, suffocated by their father. “You will never see them again,” is the message sent by Mario Bressi, a 45-year-old employee, to his mother, Daniela Fumagalli, her peer. It was she who raised the alarm, after rushing to Margno (Lecco) and having found the children now dead in the family’s holiday home. The man, with whom the relations had worn out, had meanwhile committed suicide by launching himself from the Vittoria bridge in May of Cremeno, the only testament to those photos on Instagram. “With my kids always together,” his comment. He would have planned everything, he writes The Courier, waited for them to sleep, then turned their faces on the pillow, not to have to look at them.
The mother’s screams woke the whole country, which in the summer is full of mountain enthusiasts. “They don’t wake up, they don’t wake up,” he repeated loudly, writhing in pain. “I made the flight of stairs and ran down, but it was too late: even the volunteers of the Red Cross were crying”, is the story of Vincenzo Rizza, a neighbor, who reported having heard “a lot of noise in the night strange “. It was about 3 in the morning: “I didn’t think about the thieves and I didn’t leave the house”, his regret.
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“If only they had been more frequent, perhaps I could have done something – he added in tears – The thought of this father who prepares food for his children and then kills them is something monstrous …”.
Originating from Gorgonzola but since 2003 residing in nearby Gessate, in the metropolitan area of Milan, the Bressi family was known in the country. “It seems that these things always happen far away, instead they are around the corner. There are no words, “said Deputy Mayor Valter Falcetti.
The holiday makers who pass in front of the house of the murder of the children, the condominium ‘Il castagno’, are “dazed”. “They were normal people, they had been coming here for a lifetime,” said a neighbor who yesterday saw them take the cable car to reach Pian delle Betulle, the father’s last trip with his children.
The carabinieri, who investigate coordinated by the prosecutor Andrea Figoni and the prosecutor Antonio Chiappani, listened for about three hours, in the Casargo barracks, to the mother of the two 12-year-olds.
Biomedical engineer and manager of a sports association, the ASD FreeArt of Gessate for which his daughter was skating, the woman had turned to a lawyer in Milan, Davide Colombo, to start a separation that did not seem traumatic, so much so that the couple lived still together.
Incredulous friends too. “Such a gesture is neither justifiable nor forgivable, but Mario I knew him for years, and he has always been a very good person – is the Instagram post by ele_angel -. Nobody knew what he was going through, but he never showed signs of giving way. ” “You were a cheerful and funny person but it does not justify the horrendous gesture you made – is the comment by Monica Lionetti -. Because to get to take away and take life, there is a solution to everything ”.
Obviously this was not the case for Mario Bressi, who did not accept separation. Only with his children, his anger would grow by devouring him to the point of killing them so as not to lose them. The investigators, who want to establish whether the murder-suicide was premeditated, arranged an autopsy on the man and the two children found on the double bed, where the father reassembled them waiting for his wife to find them.
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