A 38-year-old man - Nabil Dhahri - killed his 43-year-old companion - Elisa Mulas, of Sardinian origin - the 64-year-old mother-in-law and the 5 and 2-year-old children and then took his own life. It happened in Sassuolo, in the province of Modena.
The lifeless bodies of all members of the family were found inside a house in via Manin. The murders would have been carried out with a knife.
On the spot the police and the carabinieri who have started investigations to reconstruct the contours of the shocking tragedy. In action also the Forensics, for the findings in the apartment.
From the first information, the murderer, of Tunisian origin but living in Italy for years, worked in a supermarket in the Emilian town. The cohabitant, on the other hand, was Italian and did cleaning work. The two children killed were born of their union, while the woman had another 11-year-old daughter, born from a previous relationship. The latter escaped the massacre because she was at school.
The alarm would go off from the school: in fact, no one showed up at the exit to pick up the girl and this made the school staff suspicious. So the first phone calls started, they went to waste. Then the police were alerted, who showed up in via Manin making the horrible and dramatic discovery of the five corpses inside the house.
As mentioned, the investigators have started the investigations to try to understand what could have triggered the man's murderous rampage.
According to some rumors, the relationship with the partner was at an end and he, not resigned, would have started to threaten her.
(Unioneonline / lf)