“My husband is a monster. Until two years ago he sexually molested our daughter. It happened several times… My daughter didn't want to talk to him anymore and that's why he not only ruined his life, but also killed her ».
Tefta Malaj , the woman stabbed by her husband Taulant Malaj who in Torremaggiore, in the province of Foggia, killed her 16-year-old daughter Gessica and Massimo De Santis , the 51-year-old bartender who she believed was his wife's lover.
"Jessica - says the woman from the hospital bed - hasn't communicated with her father for two years and if she hasn't reported him, it's just so she doesn't have a bad name: you know how she is".
The 45-year-old confessed offender on the night between last Saturday and Sunday, in the entrance hall of the building where he lived, in via Togliatti in Torremaggiore, stabbed his neighbor with 21 stabs, then lashed out at his spouse, 39-year-old Tefta, saved by daughter Jessica who died shielding her.
THE STORY – «My husband had planned everything – continues Tefta – we were all asleep at that hour. He wasn't working that night, he was resting at home. I didn't hear him go out, then I saw him come back. He took the boy with the knife and wanted to kill him. I jumped in to save the baby . The little one slept in the cot attached to the double bed. Then he gave me so many knife blows, I don't remember how many. He made videos of him kicking and stabbing with his knife. My daughter was sleeping, she heard the noises and got up. He never wanted our daughter .'
The woman, injured but not in danger of life, is hospitalized in the Foggia polyclinic. Today, after two days of interminable waiting, he was able to embrace his son again . To accompany him to the room of the surgical ward was his aunt, the wife of Taulant's brother.
LAWYERS OF MALAJ - The life of the little boy, who at the age of only five years witnessed such a horror, would never have been in danger because the Albanian baker "never had violent attention towards him, absolutely not", they say Michele Maiellaro and Giacomo Lattanzio, legal defenders of Malaj. This is confirmed by the images of those moments recorded by the cameras installed in his home. The video was shown today in the courtroom during the hearing to validate the baker's detention. In the footage it would be seen that the child was not hiding, as it emerged at first and that Malaj was not looking for him to kill him.
The little one «was absolutely not touched - the lawyers reiterate - he saw him but did not try to do anything to him. He was there, he wasn't hidden, he saw the scene but he didn't approach the child ». According to what was reported by the lawyers, seeing the video of those moments in the courtroom " Taulant collapsed : he is gradually becoming aware of the tragedy that occurred" and "this morning he would have liked to make other statements but he had a psychological breakdown and cried: he is desperate for Jessica ».
«He could not stand the questions - they add - because he was very, very tried. When they asked him to submit to questioning, he underlined that he confirmed the statements made to the prosecutor", to whom he had confessed to the double murder on Sunday, but " when he began to express his pain he froze in a state of shock ".
To the attention of the investigators there are new elements including another video, that of the moment in which, on the night between Saturday and Sunday, De Santis closes the bar and returns home; and the recording of the distress call made by Tefta at 118. Taulant continues to repeat that that night he "didn't understand anything", that he had "the devil in his head and darkness before his eyes" . In prison he is constantly monitored because it is feared he may commit acts of self-harm.
(Unioneonline/D)
