Almost a month passed between Alessandra Matteuzzi 's stalking complaint to the carabinieri on 29 July and her murder on the evening of Tuesday 23 August. A period of time during which no measures were taken against the former partner Giovanni Padovani - footballer and model - or to protect the woman.
The matter will be at the center of the investigations launched by the Minister of Justice Marta Cartabia , who asked the Inspectorate offices to "urgently carry out the necessary preliminary investigations, formulating, at the outcome, evaluations and proposals". The aim is to understand if more could be done to prevent yet another femicide, as claimed by the victim's family.
According to the prosecutor of Bologna, Giuseppe Amato, "in this affair one cannot at all speak of evil justice". "The complaint - Amato reconstructed - was collected at the end of July, on 1 August it was registered and the investigations that could not be concluded before 29 August were immediately activated because some people to hear were on vacation. we have done". From the report, adds Amato, " no situations of concrete risk of violence emerged, it was the typical conduct of harassing stalkerism ".
Padovani, Serie D footballer, 27 years old, almost 30 less than the victim, 56 year old sales agent in a fashion showroom, showed up in via dell'Arcoveggio on Tuesday evening with a hammer. He waited for her and when she got out of the car, she was on the phone with her sister, and slaughtered her with blows . Today, questioned by the investigating judge, he made use of the right not to answer.
"What happened was not at all a bolt from the blue , because there were previous signs, so much so that there was a complaint. The problem is in the breaches of the law. at the same time there is no protection, the femicides will continue ", said Alessandra's cousin, the Modenese lawyer Sonia Bartolini.
"My aunt was a person of heart and did not deserve all this, I hope this episode will change things. I expect him to rot in jail , but that he does not pay just one person, otherwise it will happen again", Matteo insisted. Perini, grandson of the murdered woman.
Padovani had also shared on social networks a campaign against violence against women on the football team in which he played at the time: on 25 November 2021, the international day on the subject, he had relaunched a message from Troina Calcio on Instagram, where he appeared, with the captain's armband, in front of the message " Stop violence against women ".
(Unioneonline / L)
