“She committed suicide. I took the knife out of her throat, but she was already dead.” They interrogated him for a whole night, but Massimo Cannone, the husband of Naima Zahir, the 45-year-old woman found dead Saturday evening in her house in Lentini, continued to repeat the same version.
A version that does not convince investigators and investigators, who have entered the man in the register of suspects. He is currently the main suspect. Also because over and over again, Cannone in the story of him would have added details, to then correct himself and modify the story again. And then, according to the prosecutor, Naima Zahir’s is a murder.
To say for sure, however, it can only be the autopsy, scheduled for Wednesday. It will be up to the doctors to talk about the wound that went through the woman’s neck, to understand if it could be compatible with the hypothesis of suicide. In the meantime, with the coordination of the prosecutor Gaetano Bono, the agents of the mobile team and the Lentini police station continue to investigate.
The clothes that Cannone wore that evening ended up under confiscation, as well as the footage from the video surveillance cameras in the area. And it delves into the life of the couple to understand if there had already been episodes of violence in the past. For this reason, relatives, friends, neighbors, as well as the owners of businesses in the area, have been heard for days. Among the people heard several times, even the nineteen-year-old son of the couple, who was not at home that evening.
Meanwhile, the main suspect used radio and TV broadcasts to tell his version. He says he is innocent, he swears that he left the house an hour before the one in which the crime is estimated to have occurred and that he found his wife lifeless when he returned. But there are a number of details that don’t add up.
In the bedroom, someone tried to wash away the blood that had dripped to the floor. “I cleaned it myself,” Cannone admitted, but without providing a credible explanation. Just as it is not clear why he did not call an ambulance, but he went out again. “I sent a message to my son giving him an appointment with my brother, because I didn’t want him to see that scene. Then it was my brother who called the police and the ambulance,” he said to the microphones of the Rai Due broadcast “Ore 14”. “When I got home, the police were there and they immediately took me away.” An unlikely version, it is commented in investigative circles. And the death of Naima Zahir continues to be investigated.