Femicide in Rome, agent kills a colleague and commits suicide

At least two gunshots to the head. This is how Pierpaola Romano, a police officer on duty at the Chamber of Deputies, was killed in Rome. To make fire, in the entrance hall of her home in Via Rosario Nicolò, in the area of San Basilio, was one of her office colleagues: Massimiliano Carpineti who killed her around 10 am on Thursday morning. With the service pistol he fired a total of three shots in the direction of the woman and for the 58-year-old native of Caserta, but moved to live in the capital for about 20 years, there was no escape.

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After the murder Carpineti÷ 46 years old originally from Cori, but lived in Cisterna, in the province of Latina, got on board a car, a white Chevrolet: he traveled just under five hundred meters and reached a parking lot in via Nino Tamassia. Li, still in the car, turned the weapon on himself and took his own life by shooting himself under the chin. The investigators found him with his head resting on the steering wheel and attempts to save his life were useless. A drama consumed in broad daylight and in the north-east quadrant of the capital. To alert the police were some neighbors who heard the sound of gunshots. "Run, we heard gunshots and a person fleeing," the reports reached the single emergency number. Romano was killed a few meters from her home where she had lived for years with her husband, also an inspector, as well as her son, currently serving in Emilia-Romagna. The men of the Mobile Squad are at work on the case. According to what filters the motive of what happened would be linked to events of a personal nature, perhaps to a sentimental relationship, to a relationship between the two. Carpineti left nothing written. Those who investigate do not exclude that before the tragic epilogue between Romano and Carpineti there may have been a quarrel, a verbal clash.

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"We are shocked, it is a family like many others. Here live policemen, carabinieri, financiers, a quiet area and a quiet family, all policemen because even the husband and son of the victim, on duty in the north, are agents ", say the neighbors of the victim still incredulously. "We didn't even distinguish the shots, they looked like a slamming of sheets," they say. The 46-year-old, the investigators ascertained, had taken a few days off, at the time of the attack was not on duty as well as the victim. According to some witnesses, the woman was shot while she was on her knees, a position that suggests a sort of execution. An investigation has been launched in the Prosecutor's Office in which the crime of murder is hypothesized. During the day the prosecutors on duty, Antonia Gianmaria and Antonella Pandolfi, also carried out an inspection both in via Nicolò and in via Tamassia. The specialists of the Scientific have carried out a series of surveys in the entrance hall of the building but also inside the murderer's car. The President of the Chamber, Lorenzo Fontana, intervened on what happened, expressing "dismay" at the murder addressing "to the family, to the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, to the Chief of the State Police, Vittorio Pisani, and to the Director of the Inspectorate, Irene Tittoni, the expressions of my deepest personal condolences and of the Chamber of Deputies". Paola Romano was remembered during the work of the Commission engaged in the examination in the Chamber of the dl Pa. "We address a grateful thought to her, hoping that this may be the last femicide we know about, but, knowing full well that this will not be the case, we renew our commitment to work to increase prevention tools and to guarantee all women their integrity and safety", said Paolo Emilio Russo of FI.