The Minister of Justice, Carlo Nordio, has asked the Inspectorate General to start urgent preliminary investigations into the events in Catania: the double feminicide allegedly committed by a life sentence prisoner on award leave, who then took his own life.
ANSA agency
Two women killed in two different areas of a town in the Catania area - Chronicle
A 48-year-old woman was found shot dead on the Pantano di Riposto seafront in the Catania area.
In a different area of the country, another woman was found seriously injured (shot by a gunshot), who later died of her injuries.
The man suspected of the blood crime committed suicide with a firearm (ANSA)
Responded is "astonished, shocked and hurt" by what happened.
With "the pain that turns into silence", even during "small processions" in the places of the tragedy.
So the mayor of the Ionian city of Catania,
Enzo Caragliano,
in the aftermath of the murder of Carmelina 'Melina' Marino, 48, and Santa Castorina, 50, and the suicide of lifer Salvatore 'Turi' La Motta, 63. "This tragedy does not reflect our city - he adds - but what happened is without justification, acts that can only be connected to human folly. I didn't know the two women and the man personally, I knew about this from his family".
"Yesterday we looked like we were in an American film - Caragliano reconstructs - there was talk of a serial killer who killed women and there were reports of murders, never committed, from different parts of the city. Madness. This is not Riposto".
The day of the funeral of the two women, the mayor anticipates,