The man she had been having an affair with had severed relations and seemed to intend to make peace with his ex-wife . And she, in a fit of anger and jealousy, stabbed them both . Pquesto has now ended up in handcuffs on charges of attempted double murder .

The negative protagonist of the story is a 37-year-old Dominican woman, Ismaela Payano Pichardo .

The investigations are coordinated by the Public Prosecutor of Catania , the city where - in a parking lot - the incident took place and, the investigators write, the woman's violence was triggered by " reasons attributable to the jealousy matured due to a relationship entertained until last year by 'investigated with the man ".

According to the reconstruction of the facts, the first to be hit was the rival in love, "pierced in the chest - reconstructs the Prosecutor - by means of a switchblade".

Then the 37-year-old allegedly stabbed her ex "even leaving the weapon stuck in his stomach - writes the prosecutor - as told by the victim".

As mentioned, according to the prosecution, the arrested woman - transferred to prison - would be "the author of the attack with a white weapon, carried out in such a way as to appear unequivocally aimed at causing the death of the victims, for the resentment unleashed in her from the end of his relationship and from the reconciliation between the spouses ".