A 33-year-old former traffic policeman, Sofia Stefani, was killed by a gunshot to the head . The shot came from the service weapon of a colleague, Giampiero Gualandi, former commander and currently serving in the force and yesterday evening the 60-year-old man was interrogated, assisted by a defender. He was arrested on charges of voluntary manslaughter.
The Carabinieri are continuing to work to understand what happened in a room on the ground floor of the "Casa Gialla", the headquarters of the local police command in Anzola Emilia, a municipality in the Bolognese plain, along the Via Emilia between Bologna and Modena.
The very first version given by Gualandi, not in the minutes, would have been of an accidental episode, a shot fired by mistake. According to some sources, someone initially thought of suicide. To answer the questions, witnesses who were present in the building in the afternoon when the alarm was raised are being interviewed. In addition to the acquaintances of the two people, to understand the nature of their relationship.
118 arrived around 4pm. But there was nothing that could be done for the young woman. She was hit in the head and had no escape. The weapon was seized and the place, a stone's throw from the town hall, cordoned off and combed through by the scientific departments of the Carabinieri. It will also be necessary to understand why the woman, who appears to have been dismissed from the police force, found herself meeting the 60-year-old in the command offices.
According to what was leaked, there would have been a relationship between the two that had perhaps been interrupted. But the veracity of the hypothesis is being examined by investigators.
«It is a fact that has shaken our Municipality, the death of a 33-year-old girl from a gunshot. But even in the face of something so traumatizing, we must not have the morbid curiosity of understanding who did what, what the motivations were. That is up to the investigators, at the time, who will determine responsibilities and culprits", says the mayor of Anzola Giampiero Veronsi. « It is a devastating loss and therefore we must have the ability to react as a community, in the face of an event which, in a quiet municipality of 15 thousand inhabitants, deeply shakes the conscience. And also for this reason I am preparing to proclaim city mourning."
