The murder of Maria Vittoria Carbone, 57, in Tito (Potenza) unfolded in a difficult context . She died at the hands of her son, Giampiero Santamaria, 31, with whom she had a violent argument late yesterday evening, which then escalated into a brutal attack. The argument stemmed from what the Carabinieri, coordinated by prosecutor Francesco Russo, described as "problematic" between the two.
Futile reasons, it seems, over the handling of a cell phone , according to what has leaked out, which degenerated into a tragic epilogue. He repeatedly hit her in the face and head : at the end of a very long interrogation, in which the Public Prosecutor of Potenza, Camillo Falvo, also took part, Santamaria confessed, reconstructing the various phases of the argument .
Upon the arrival of 118 paramedics, the victim's condition immediately appeared to be extremely serious, and all attempts at resuscitation were unsuccessful . The young man, who had been cared for for some time by social services in his municipality of residence and then taken into care by the Mental Health Center of Potenza, was currently being supported primarily by his father, who was suffering from a complex mental condition. He lived in a house in Tito (Potenza), a few meters from the home of his father, Vito, a teaching assistant at the local middle school, from whom Maria Vittoria had been divorced for years. Maria Vittoria, on the other hand, lived in another town in the Potenza area, Vaglio di Basilicata, where she too was being cared for by local social services due to an evidently difficult situation. She had traveled to Tito, in the Potenza hinterland, to visit her son, as had happened several times in the past. The investigations ordered by the prosecutor—which began with footage from a supermarket security camera that intercepted Maria Vittoria around 6:00 PM, shortly before she went to her son's house—and the military's investigative efforts allowed them to build a solid evidentiary framework, leading to Santamaria's arrest.
Tito's mayor, Fabio Laurino, expressed his community's dismay: "It would be appropriate to reflect not only on the occurrence of these tragedies, but on a daily basis. And it would also be right to recognize and analyze the various forms of hardship that can be hidden in similar contexts, within the confines of our own homes." "Only through shared responsibility," he concluded, "can we build that network of solidarity that is so much talked about, but which too often stops at words, slogans, and the lowest institutional level."
(Unioneonline)
