The bodies of a 56-year-old woman Stefania Pivettaand his 16-year-old daughter Giulia they were found lifeless around 8 ago in a house in Samarate, in the province of Varese. The other son was also seriously injured, Nicolò, a 23 year old. On the spot found Alessandro Maja, the woman’s husband and father of the boys, a 57-year-old man found bloodied and apparently with stab wounds on his wrists. The first hypothesis, for which the man was stopped, is that during the night he killed his wife and daughter with a hammer and tried to kill his son too, then also trying to set himself on fire. At first the news spread that the boy had also been killed. “We will try to better understand the dynamics of what happened from his son Nicolò, hoping that we can recover”, explains David Pirrera, the commander of the investigative unit of the Varese carabinieri. The alarm was triggered this morning by the neighbors, who immediately called the police when they saw the man stained with blood. “It is still all to be ascertained – explains the commander – even the murder weapon has not yet been identified with certainty”.
Samarate kills his wife and daughter in their sleep and injures their son: the alarm of the neighbors
The injured son would still have a serious head injury: he was transported to the hospital in Circolo di Varese. The father was also taken to hospital in Busto Arsizio, it seems to treat the cuts that – from a first reconstruction – would have been made, even if it is not excluded that they are wounds due to the attempt of his wife and children to defend themselves. Guarded by the carabinieri, he is in custody.
The neighbors gave the alarm, a villa in via Torino, on the outskirts of Samarate in a residential neighborhood. A neighbor saw the man full of blood and called for help. On the spot the carabinieri of the Varese Provincial Command.
Massacre in the family in Samarate, the first reconstruction
From the first reconstructions Alessandro Maja would have hit his wife while she was on the sofa, while the two children were joined while they were already in bed in their rooms. The man would then try to set himself on fire.
Samarate, the mayor: “There are no previous episodes of violence”
“A terrible awakening this morning for the city, a tragedy, but no one ever doubted that there were problems, according to some mutual friends who live in the area, we hope that the boy will recover”. The mayor of Samarate (Varese), Enrico Puricelli, told Ansa following the murder of mother and daughter, 56 and 16, who were allegedly killed in their sleep by the 57-year-old father-husband who also seriously injured the other son, aged 23, only to attempt suicide.
“The boys, Nicolò and Giulia, lived a peaceful life, the father is an architect, she was a housewife – continued Puricelli – they bought the house in 1999, after moving here from Milan. There is no previous episode of violence” .