Attempted feminicide in Vicenza: he stabs his partner and fractures her skull

A 35-year-old barber, Younes Nafaa, of Moroccan origin, was stopped by the police on charges of attempted femicide after having attacked his live-in partner with extreme ferocity in an apartment on the outskirts of Vicenza. The events occurred on the night between Wednesday 4 and Thursday 5 November 2026, but the investigative details were made known by the Police Headquarters in the last few hours by the authorities.

According to what was reconstructed by the Flying Squad officers, the attack broke out at the height of a violent argument at home, perhaps aggravated by alcohol. The man repeatedly hit his partner in the face and arms with a cutting weapon: five slashes were delivered, including a very serious one to the face. Nafaa also chased the woman's daughter, who managed to escape to safety. The woman is currently hospitalized in desperate conditions and with a reserved prognosis in the intensive care unit of the San Bortolo hospital in Vicenza. The doctors found, in addition to deep stab wounds and a permanent facial disfigurement, also a serious fracture of the temporal bone with consequent leakage of intracranial fluid.

After the attack in the apartment in Vicenza, Nafaa escaped on board a train headed for Castelfranco Veneto, reaching a house in Via San Pio In the escape's home, the police found and seized elements considered fundamental to the accusation, including a jacket still soaked in blood (presumably the clothing worn during the wounding) and the man's mobile phone.

The thirty-five-year-old was arrested as a crime suspect on the very serious charge of attempted aggravated murder. He was transferred to prison pending the hearing to validate the provision by the investigating judge, who will also have to express his opinion on precautionary custody in prison to avoid the risk of escape or repetition of the crime.