Since April 23 , Reis Pedroso, the 41-year-old man accused of killing Jessica Stapazzolo, 33, in Castelnuovo del Garda (Verona), has been under a restraining order from his partner and the places she frequented, maintaining a distance of 500 meters from both of them, and wearing an electronic bracelet . He was prohibited from contacting her by any means and was banned from residing in the municipality of Ponti sul Mincio, where she lived.
The Verona Public Prosecutor's Office wrote this in a statement. The electronic bracelet had been installed on May 19th "upon express communication from Fastweb Spa," and Jessica Stapazzolo had been given the appropriate receiving device and explained how it worked. However, at the time of his arrest, Reis Pedroso was found without the electronic bracelet, and the Carabinieri are still searching for him, while the device given by FastWeb to the murdered woman was found hidden in the garage of her mother's home in Ponti Sul Mincio .
Investigations are underway to trace the electronic bracelet and to understand when and where Reis Pedroso disposed of it.
According to initial reports, Pedroso attacked his partner at home "with an unspecified, but nevertheless enormous, number of stab wounds." Both he and the victim are Brazilian. The alarm was raised by some of the victim's friends who hadn't heard from her since Saturday and became concerned when she wasn't responding to calls and texts. This morning, her lifeless body was discovered in her home in Castelnuovo del Garda. The coroner will determine the date and time of death. Her partner was not home when the body was discovered, having called the Carabinieri around midnight, expressing suicidal intent. The man was later stopped and arrested by the Carabinieri .
Veneto Governor described this as a "terrible event, aggravated by disturbing elements." "The suspect was already under criminal proceedings for mistreatment, intentional assault, and other serious charges, and since April he had been subject to a precautionary measure prohibiting him from approaching him and wearing an electronic bracelet," he emphasized. "However, at the time of his arrest, the man was not wearing the device, and the device given to the victim was found in a garage, inactive. and whether they can be further improved and developed, for example with systems integrated into the victims' cell phones, capable of providing timely alerts and continuous traceability in the event of tampering or deactivation of the device."
