Florence gathers to remember Lorena Isceri, victim of feminicide

While the investigations by the judiciary and police continue - to provide answers that are missing although the investigation into the femicide of Lorena Isceri, which caused the death of her ex, will not end up in a courtroom - Florence decides to meet under the victim's house so as not to forget the 45-year-old originally from Squinzano (Lecce) who had chosen the Tuscan capital to live. The mayor Sara Funaro - after Lorena's father's appeal for politics to be united against violence against women - promoted a protest in via Panciatichi where Lorena lived and where on Thursday she was kidnapped by Federico Vella, 36, who then killed her and committed suicide by throwing himself from the same A1 viaduct from which he had shortly before thrown the woman he said he loved into the void.

'Together for Lorena Isceri', this is the event at which the mayor announces that the first citizens of Bergamo Elena Carnevali and of Perugia Vittoria Ferdinandi will also be present, already in Florence for a meeting for the Festa dell'Unità against inequalities. "The feminicide of Lorena Isceri is a tragedy that has shaken the entire city - Funaro writes on Instagram -. We cannot and must not get used to these tragedies, nor accept that they are reduced to a fatality. We must say it with strength and clarity: it is not jealousy, it is not passion, it is not love. Obsession, the claim of possession and violence destroy women's lives".

"We will meet in via Panciatichi, on the corner with via Antognoli - explains the mayor inviting people to bring a flower or a candle -, to remember Lorena, together" with Ferdinandi and Carnevali, "whom I thank for choosing to be with us", with the representatives "of the institutions, associations and all citizens.

It will be a moment to rally together, as a community, around his family and share the pain of a tragedy that affects all of us. Florence does not forget Lorena. And she will continue to make her voice heard for the freedom, safety and life of every woman."

Tomorrow will be the day of the assignment of the task for the autopsies by the prosecutor Antonio Natale who coordinates the investigations of the flying squad. The examination will have to establish whether the woman was dead or alive when Vella made her fall from the viaduct and whether Vella had taken any substance or was using psychotropic drugs. According to investigators, however, the man premeditated everything. And Lorena's desperate attempt to make him see reason was to no avail. "Federico, what are you doing, I love you, we can get back together", these are his words, as reported by the press, recorded during the 20-minute phone call made by the woman to 112 from the trunk where the 36-year-old had closed it, at a time when it is presumed he had stopped the car. However, she then left and reached the viaduct from where the man also wrote to the woman's mother telling her that she was dead and confessed by telephone what he had done to his mother, who then called 112. "A tragedy that goes beyond any imagination, it is an immense pain" are the words of one of Federico's aunts published by Nazione and Corriere.