Attempted feminicide in Turin: the man strangles his partner then jumps from the tenth floor

When he let go and she collapsed to the floor unconscious, with the marks of his hands still on her neck, perhaps he thought he had killed her. And only this saved a 31-year-old in Turin from yet another feminicide: because the man, the woman's partner and father of the one-year-old girl who was in the house at the time, after trying to kill her, threw himself from the window on the tenth floor of the building. And he died instantly.

It all happened this morning in the northern suburbs of Turin. A neighborhood, that of Barriera di Milano, also known in the news for episodes linked to petty crime, often at the hands of foreigners. Unlike what happened today in via Cervino, where all the protagonists are Italian. The argument broke out for reasons defined as "trivial" by those who dealt with the matter.

Around 9.30 this morning the neighbors heard the first screams. The argument got heated and the man, a 37-year-old, initially dragged her towards the balcony. According to an initial reconstruction, he attempted to throw her into the void, but she managed to escape with her little daughter to the neighbors. But subsequent investigations instead ascertained another dynamic. After the argument on the balcony, in fact, the couple returned to the house and the violent argument continued here. Until the 37-year-old put his hands around her neck to strangle her. He tightened his grip, more and more. Until he found himself holding an immobile body. So he dropped her to the ground, unconscious.

No one will ever know what went through her partner's head at that moment, he probably thought he had killed her. With her one-year-old daughter still in the quarters, she grabbed a chair and set her up on the balcony to straddle. "What are you doing?! Get back in the house!" the neighbors, who had heard the whole argument, would have shouted at him, seeing him with his legs hanging over the parapet. Attempts to make him stop, however, were of no avail: the man let himself fall into the void, falling about thirty metres, and crashed to the ground. The 118 health workers who arrived on site could not help but confirm the death.

When the neighbors managed to enter the apartment, the 31-year-old was recovering. And together with her daughter she left the accommodation and found hospitality in a nearby apartment. She was entrusted to the care of the emergency medical service and taken to hospital for the necessary checks. He still has the marks of the blows he received from the man, but he is in good general condition.

After hearing from the investigators, the neighbors spoke of some arguments in the past, but there appear to be no complaints of violence suffered by their partner. The couple had lived in that house for about a year. The Carabinieri are dealing with the case. The man's body was returned to his family by the judicial authorities. There will therefore be no autopsy: the dynamics seem quite clear.

And Turin is not the only episode of violence against women. In a house in Montesilvano, in the Pescarese area, shortly before 6 in the morning, a man allegedly stabbed his wife with a knife and then voluntarily injured his throat. All of this, also in this case, in the presence of the son.

118 personnel intervened on site: the woman was transported to hospital with stab wounds, but her condition was not serious. The man, however, was hospitalized in more serious conditions. The police are working to reconstruct the exact dynamics of the events. At the end of the investigations he was arrested.