A 49-year-old woman, Elena Casanova, was hammered to death in the street by her ex-boyfriend, Ezio Galesi, of the same age, who then called the carabinieri and is under arrest.
It happened in Castegnato, in the province of Brescia.
The woman's neighbors sounded the alarm.
"Call the carabinieri, I killed her with a hammer."
So Ezio Galesi, speaking in the Brescia dialect, turned to the neighbors of the ex after killing her in the street in Castegnato.
The couple hadn't been together for a year and the woman, a worker at Iveco in the city and mother of a 17-year-old girl from her first marriage, died instantly a few meters from her newly parked car.
