Lured into the house and then beaten to death, probably as a reaction to unwanted sexual intercourse.
This is the dynamic considered most plausible for the death of Anica Panfile, a 30-year-old Romanian woman resident in Treviso, mother of four boys, found dead on May 21st in a stream tributary to the Piave, in Spresiano (Treviso) , and for which the carabinieri arrested Franco Battaggia, 77 years old, resident in Arcade (Treviso). The man is accused of murder and attempted suppression of a corpse.
His was a very recurring name in the news of bloody events in Veneto between the 80s and 90s, as it was connected to Felice Maniero's Mala del Brenta . After having paid off his numerous debts to the law, Battaggia has been managing a fish shop in Spresiano for years, continuing a business started more than 40 years ago and managed for a long time with his brother, Galliano , who was shot dead by unknown assailants in his home in June 1991.
Battaggia had been Panfile's employer for a period of time, and for a few months he had been working in a welfare institution in Treviso . A few days after the body was found, he admitted meeting her for, he said, an arranged appointment to give her a tax document. Afterwards, he said, he would only accompany her to another meeting with a person unknown to him. In the subsequent investigations, entrusted to the Ris carabinieri in the suspect's house and car, traces of the woman's DNA were found in a bedroom in Battaggia, with attempts to erase it, and cocaine residues similar to those found in the blood. of Anica during the autopsy.
The examination of the body would have highlighted severe trauma to the back of the head, inflicted with bare hands, and signs of suffocation, ultimately indicated as the cause of death.
(Unioneonline/D)
