Military man attacks ex-partner in court with modified ruler, arrested for attempted murder

If he probably expected the sentence, he certainly organized the attack instead. Agostino Di Novo, 40 years old, an Army soldier, must have also analyzed the details. The judge was practically finishing the reading of the device, when he took off, surprising everyone with the unexpected gesture, and jumped on the woman, his ex-partner, hitting her repeatedly with a sharp object and injuring her neck and leg.

Di Novo appeared in court as a defendant for injuries to the woman, who is 35 years old, and was sentenced to 6 months in prison with a suspended sentence: he had grabbed his partner by the arms and pushed him in an attempt to throw her out of the house. A light sentence, essentially, but which the attempted femicide will transform into a much more serious case.

The public prosecutor will almost certainly also contest premeditation: the man injured his ex with a plastic ruler appropriately modified specifically to offend. A choice determined by the fact that hard plastic is not detected by the metal detector at the entrance to the court but can do a lot of harm. And, according to what the Nem group newspapers that followed the story wrote, it would not have been the only piece of plastic that the man had brought with him.

He hit her several times in the neck before a carabiniere and a policeman, present in the courtroom as witnesses in another trial, managed to immobilize him and arrest him in flagrante delicto. The woman was saved from more serious injuries also because a court employee removed her from the courtroom and took her to the council chamber, barring the door. Sores staff subsequently transferred her to the emergency room for injuries to her neck and leg.

The incident occurred on Thursday morning, but this morning the investigating judge validated the arrest and ordered precautionary custody in prison in Udine. The charges against him are attempted murder, threats, illegal possession of a weapon intended for offense and interruption of public service. "He could have killed the lady - said a witness - We experienced moments of great apprehension in the courtroom, fortunately the man lost the grip of the object when he hit his ex on the neck, and this probably contributed to preventing the attack from turning into a much worse tragedy".