"I did a very bad thing: I stabbed my mother."
Thus Antonio Cometti, 25 years old , from Gabiano, a small town on the hills of Monferrato in the province of Alessandria, when he presented himself to the carabinieri after having killed his mother perhaps with a kitchen knife with a 30 cm blade. And then trying to put the body in a garbage bag .
The military found the woman dead at home, on the floor of the rustic farmhouse in Viale Roma, with a deep throat wound and a series of cuts on her wrists which testify to an extreme attempt at defence .
According to the first reports, the victim, Marina Mouritch, 53 , of Lithuanian origin, was killed after a terrible argument while her husband was working in an accommodation facility in the area.
The son was going through a depressive crisis and was being followed by the operators of the ASL of Casale Monferrato. He was convinced that his brother controlled his computer and telephone and accused his mother of siding with him .
However, there are no complaints and interventions by the police for ill-treatment or episodes of violence. Cometti, now in prison in Vercelli awaiting the validation hearing, admitted that he had taken drugs in the past, but not recently, and that on Wednesday he had "skipped" therapy.
«He said - explains the lawyer Fabrizio Amatelli, appointed public defender - that at that moment he was either doing something against himself, even killing himself, or he was picking on his mother. And there was a break."
Marina Mouritch will be remembered today, on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, by the Zonta Club Alessandria. There will be a minute of silence in front of the prison (organized with prisons) and a moment of prayer in the urban cemetery.
(Unioneonline/D)
