Murder in Palosco, in the lower Bergamo area. A 70-year-old woman, Emilia Bianchi, was found killed in the bedroom of her home and the Carabinieri stopped her eldest son, 47 years old, who lives in the same house, but in another apartment.
According to what has been reconstructed, he struck his mother with at least a dozen stab wounds, although the exact number of blows and the dynamics of what happened will be better clarified by the autopsy, which will be carried out in the next few days at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Pavia.
The investigations, coordinated by the Bergamo Prosecutor's Office, are conducted by the soldiers of the Bergamo investigative department who carried out the findings. In the next few hours, the prosecutor on duty will have to ask the investigating judge to validate the arrest and the application of the prison precautionary measure. The alarm was raised around 11.45 this morning by the local police commander, who was alerted by a relative of the victim who was unable to contact the woman either on the phone or by ringing the doorbell.
"We were at the Thanksgiving celebration with the farmers at the oratory which is 50 meters from the house - reconstructs the mayor Mario Mazza -. A relative came to call the local police commander because no one was answering the doorbell. The commander went to check, the lady's son opened the door to him and that's how we discovered what had happened. Our community is really shocked by what happened".
In addition to Emilia Bianchi, a widow for years, her 47-year-old son, who was later arrested, lived in the house, while a second son appears to have moved elsewhere as well as a daughter who still lives in Palosco but in another house. Already yesterday evening Mrs. Emilia had not shown up for dinner with the conscripts: even on that occasion some friends had looked for her at home after she had not arrived at the appointment in the square to reach the restaurant, but no one had answered.
The investigators' suspicion is that the crime could therefore date back to Friday, but we will have to wait for the conclusion of the investigations to get answers on the time of death and to exclude the existence of any accomplices. Also on the motive: some have reported the fragile situation of the forty-seven-year-old son accused of his mother's murder.
In addition to the Carabinieri who are carrying out the investigations and the local police, the police dog unit also intervened in the house: the entire area around the house was isolated by the police in order to carry out the investigations.
Palosco, a center of 5,700 inhabitants in the eastern Bergamo plain and 'shocked' by what happened, is among other things about ten kilometers from Chiari, already in the province of Brescia and the scene of a recent similar bloody incident: last Monday night, 39-year-old Meleqe Lusha was stabbed to death in her home, and her twenty-one-year-old son Eduard Xhani was arrested for the murder.
