Domenico Massari, in prison in Opera for killing his ex-wife in 2019, killed the narco Antonio Magrini on Friday evening at the height of a dispute over the spaces they shared. The judicial authorities are working to investigate the murder. Domenico, known as "Mimmo" Massari, hit the headlines because he was the man who killed his ex-partner Deborah Ballesio with 6 gunshots on 13 July 2019 while she was singing karaoke in the Aquario baths in Savona. Three people were also injured in the shooting, including a little girl, fortunately not seriously. After the murder the man fled and then handed himself over to Sanremo prison the following day. Massari claimed to have killed him not for sentimental, but economic reasons; he felt cheated by his ex.
During the trial it actually emerged that the motive that had pushed him to the murder was mainly a question of money: Massari had invested his own assets, around 300 thousand euros (presumably the result of illicit activities, given that the man had never worked dedicating himself to drug trafficking in Spain), in the opening of a lap dancing club, the 'Follia' in Altare (Savona), which however was registered in his wife's name. When the relationship broke down he had asked for his share back by threatening to set fire to the place, a plan which he had actually implemented when the woman refused to give him the money. For this he was arrested. After three years in prison he was released but, when he went to collect some money that he had buried in a field, he discovered that the containers had been emptied. According to Massari, Deborah Ballesio was the one who stole the money, and for this reason he had decided to take revenge. In previous years, the victim had turned to the police because of the threats she had received, but in recent years she had no longer done so and his friends also said that no more threats had been received. For the murder of his ex-wife Massari was sentenced to life imprisonment. Friday evening the murder of Magrini, who was found lifeless inside the cell he shared with Massari.
Since the beginning of the year, recalled the national coordinator FP Cgil Penitentiary Police Mirko Manna, "there have been 32 suicides of prisoners in Italian prisons, 4 suicides among members of the Penitentiary Police Corps and now a murder inside the Milan Opera prison. These are tragedies that signal an unequivocal crisis in the entire Italian penitentiary system."