Femicide in Messina. The body of a woman, Daniela Zinnanti, who turned 50 in July, was found on Tuesday around 8pm in the house in via Lombardia, in the Lombardo district. On his body there were dozens of stab marks, inflicted with a knife that the police found near a dumpster not far from the victim’s home. The daughter found the woman, suspicious of her mother’s failure to answer the phone. Seeing the body, she felt ill and was taken to hospital. The murder could date back to Monday evening, as is emerging from the investigations in these hours.
Late yesterday evening a man was taken to the police station for questioning (his lawyer was also present). This is Santino Bonfiglio. The man, the victim’s ex-partner, was under house arrest for crimes against the person and property. According to initial investigations, Bonfiglio would have gone to visit his ex to talk, perhaps to ask her to get back together, but he would have been rejected. The suspect then took the knife and struck her dozens of times. After the confession, the man was arrested and transferred to Gazzi prison.
Meanwhile, investigators have acquired images from the surveillance cameras of some condominiums and businesses located near the building. Apparently the woman lived alone in that apartment. From the initial investigations it would also emerge that in the past Santino Bonfiglio had beaten the woman who had been in hospital. Zinnanti allegedly filed a complaint but then withdrew it the next day. The violence was repeated last month, when Zinnanti once again reported the man, after seeking treatment at the Piedmont hospital. At that point the arrests for Bonfiglio began. But there is a sensational detail: the investigating judge, at the request of the prosecutor, had signed the order in which he requested house arrest with the application of the electronic bracelet. But it had not been applied to the man because there were none available, as confirmed by his defender.