Killed by her ex-husband who was under house arrest in a nearby town after a 5-year sentence for previous violence against the victim and other family members.

Samia Bent Rejab Kedim, a 46-year-old Tunisian citizen, died this morning. She was repeatedly hit - with a sharp and blunt object - by Mohamed Naceur Saadi, 59, in what had been their home for years, an apartment in an Ater complex in Udine. The alarm was raised by the couple's 15-year-old son who, returning home, saw his father running out of the building, heading towards the car, with bloody clothes.

The boy dialed 112, the single emergency number for Friuli Venezia Giulia, which sent the police and medical personnel to the scene: there was nothing more that could be done for the woman. The hunt for her ex-husband began immediately, already dead following a road accident that occurred just minutes after he left the scene of the crime. The murderer, aboard his car, crashed into a tanker along the Pontebbana state road.

From what the truck driver - bruised and in shock - said, it seems that the light vehicle was proceeding at a very high speed and was "heading" right in his direction. Other truck drivers who witnessed the accident claim to be certain that it was a deliberate act, seeing the trajectory of the car, which apparently accelerated before the crash. The man died instantly in the collision .

He was under house arrest in the shipyard town and had, every Tuesday and Thursday morning, a two-hour leave to provide for his own sustenance, to do the shopping and to undergo any visits. At 11, the electronic bracelet signaled his failure to return home, triggering the search for escape. In reality, at that time the murderer was already dead, after killing his ex-wife.

The mayor of Udine, Alberto Felice De Toni, expressed his "condolences to those close to our fellow citizen Samia Bent Rejab Kedim, especially to her two daughters and her son." De Toni spoke of "a culture that must be eradicated, with the commitment of each of us and starting from political institutions, to guarantee safety for women and education for the male component of society, too often conditioned by the idea of possession and violence."