Crowd at the Cathedral of Castelfranco Veneto for the funeral of Vanessa Ballan, the 26-year-old pregnant woman killed by the Kosovar Bujar Fardaj. The body was in a white coffin on which were placed two bouquets of white tulips and roses sent by Vanessa's family and partner , Nicola Scapinello.
The ceremony was attended by the undersecretary of Justice, Andrea Ostellari, the president of the Veneto government and council, Luca Zaia and Roberto Ciambetti.
Ballan was killed with eight stab wounds with a 20 centimeter blade, one of which hit the heart and two the lungs . The person who killed her was a 41-year-old building contractor from Altivole, arrested shortly after the murder and who had been reported by the victim at the end of last October for stalking and threats for having blackmailed her by leveraging some videos taken during moments of intimacy between the two , who had a romantic relationship that lasted some time and was interrupted by her will last summer.
A complaint, that of the young mother who was expecting her second child, which had not resulted in any action from the prosecutor's office. And it is precisely on these aspects that the reports that the magistrates of the Treviso Prosecutor's Office will send to the Inspectorate of the Ministry of Justice are being finalized with the reasons why the complaint was not followed by any precautionary measures. The reports will be sent via the Venice General Prosecutor's Office to the Ministry's inspectorate, and also as a response to the direct question to Minister Nordio presented in the Senate by Northern League member Gian Marco Centinaio.
The prosecutor denied that "nothing was done in the case", recalling that a search of Fardaj's house was immediately ordered. But in the absence of evidence on the intimidating messages sent by the man to Vanessa (Ballan had deleted them from his mobile phone) the prosecutors' assessment of the case was "non-urgent".
« ", said a colleague from the supermarket where Ballan worked outside the church: "We - she says - were afraid when Fardaj entered the shop, I didn't like his look".
