Taulant Malaj , the 45-year-old Albanian baker who killed his 16-year-old daughter yesterday in Torremaggiore (Foggia) and his neighbor made spontaneous statements admitting the double homicide .
When the military blocked him he still had bloody clothes and had abandoned the murder weapon, a kitchen knife, inside his car.
After admitting his responsibility for the double homicide, perhaps in the grip of the confusion he was in, he repeatedly asked about his daughter: "How is Gessica, is she okay?" . This circumstance was reported by the man's two lawyers, Michele Maiellaro and Giacomo Lattanzio.
Then the man explained the reason: « My wife admitted that she was having an affair with Massimo. He had apologized to me for this relationship, but I wanted to part ways , ”he told prosecutors. According to the story of the baker, in recent days there had been a discussion in the family, always for the alleged betrayal, at the end of which the man had said he wanted to separate. However, his wife persuaded him to stay at home.
It seems that Malaj - still according to his story - had discovered his wife several times over time on the third floor of the building, where the alleged lover lived. Yesterday, however, something else would have happened, always according to the story that the alleged murderer gave to the prosecutor. While husband and wife were in bed, the woman allegedly started chatting with someone. The man, suspicious, would have seen the woman's phone and discovered that she was chatting with her neighbor , Massimo. After a while he left the house and waited for Massimo to come home from the bar. As soon as the man entered the door, he stabbed him to death. In fact, Malaj told the prosecutor - the lawyers report - that he first killed Massimo, then went up to the house where he began to stab his wife and then his daughter, who was trying to shield her mother.
"At that moment, blinded by anger - the defenders report - he did not realize that he was facing his daughter and started hitting her ". The two lawyers speak of "a strong bond between the confessed offender and his own children", the 16-year-old and a 5-year-old boy. Yet, according to the video he shot on the neighbors' Whatsapp chats, he was also looking for his other little son to kill him: "It's not over, he said". The 5-year-old boy saved himself by hiding behind the sofa .
Last December Malaj was hired as a baker in the "Latartara" bakery: «He always worked, even when he had finished his shift, he never stopped. It was all work and family,” his colleagues told reporters.
(Unioneonline/L)
