He stabbed his ex-wife multiple times in the chest in front of their teenage son and then accompanied her to the hospital, before fleeing to a seaside town on Rome , taking the boy with him . The man, a forty-seven-year-old Roman , was arrested by police after a seven-hour search . Emergency room doctors raised the alarm , saying the four stab wounds the woman received were not fatal by chance.
Initial information gathered by investigators from the Flying Squad, the Flying Squad, and the Tuscolano Police Station revealed that the victim had shortly before gone to an apartment in Fontana Candida, in the southern part of the capital, where her ex-husband lived, to retrieve some personal belongings. Once inside, she was allegedly verbally assaulted by the man, who then grabbed a knife and stabbed her four times in the chest.
Realizing that he had seriously injured his ex-wife, the 47-year-old decided to drive her to the emergency room, bringing along his teenage son, who had witnessed the attack.
Once he had ensured that she was receiving first aid, he then fled, still aboard the same vehicle, accompanied by his son.
According to an initial prognosis released by the health workers, the blows that struck the victim were not fatal only due to 'fortuitous events'.
The woman, questioned by investigators after regaining consciousness, reported the incident and recounted the abuse she had suffered in the past . According to her account, the violence had also occurred in the presence of her minor children on other occasions.
The police then began searching for the man, which lasted for seven hours.
To mislead the investigation, the forty-seven-year-old had tampered with the satellite device his car was equipped with , which was found shortly before midnight in Torvajanica, on the Roman coast.
The raid began a few minutes later, when investigators saw the silhouettes of the ex-husband and son walking back to the vehicle.
Inside the passenger compartment, on the back seat, a suitcase containing some clothes and a drawer containing some medicines were found, probably collected by the suspect from his last home before fleeing.
In the Fontana Candida home, where the attack took place, a blood-soaked knife was eventually found and seized.
Late that night, the man was arrested for attempted femicide and taken to prison. The Velletri magistrates later validated the judicial police's actions, ordering his remand in prison.
(Unioneonline/vl)
