Stabbed in the legs by a hooded man, who then fled, while she was in a car stopped in a service area on the A1 motorway in the province of Florence waiting for her two daughters who were inside the service station. And the ex-husband who has disappeared without a trace for the moment.
The Police are trying to shed light on what happened on Boxing Day afternoon in the Bisenzio Est service area, between Florence and Prato. A story of which many details are still missing and which could have ended in a much more tragic way.
The victim is a 58-year-old teacher resident in Segrate, in the province of Milan: she was returning home after spending Christmas at the home of some relatives in Cerveteri, a center in the province of Rome. In the morning the woman left by car with her two daughters, one aged 29 and the other 31 years old, and around 2.15pm she stopped at the service area. However, she remained in the car while the young women got out to go to the service station: and it was precisely in those minutes that the attack occurred, so much so that the two saw nothing. A hooded man approached the car who opened the door and, according to what emerged from the vision of the cameras, attempted to hit the woman in the chest with a knife. However, the teacher somehow managed to defend herself and the stab wound thus reached her thigh. After being hit, the woman got out of the car and started asking for help: some people who were in the service area called for help.
Transported to the Florentine hospital in Careggi, she did not suffer serious injuries and was discharged in the late afternoon. The 58-year-old has already been interviewed by investigators to try to reconstruct what happened, but she was unable to recognize the man who hit her. However, the woman reportedly recounted a particular episode: not long ago all the tires on her car were slashed. The attacker fled in a car: the surveillance cameras in the service area - there are several scattered in various points - may have recorded the car's license plate which, according to some testimonies, should be dark in colour. who collected the testimonies of the people present in the service area and viewed the images from the video surveillance cameras. At the moment the investigators do not exclude that it could be an attack that occurred within a family context even if the investigations continue across the board. . It is not yet clear whether the man is involved or not, directly or indirectly, in the affair. There are precedents against him for personal injuries in a family context and until the beginning of December he was on probation.
