He attempted to kill his 78-year-old ex-wife with gunshots in the house in Pedara where they lived in separate rooms, but the gun jammed. The 87-year-old pensioner, former railway employee originally from Caserta, however did not give up and hit the woman on the head with the butt of the gun, but his ex-wife managed to disarm him. He didn’t give up and hit her with the stick he used to walk and then attempted to strangle her. The man was stopped by neighbors who, alerted by the woman’s screams of pain, intervened and took her away until the police arrived and stopped the man. The couple’s daughters also live in the housewho however were not at home at the time of the attack.
The Catania Prosecutor’s Office is investigating: the attempted murder perhaps linked to an ancient economic dispute between former spouses. The police seized the weapon used by the pensioner, found on the ground, a 7.65 caliber Berretta with the serial number canceled. The victim was taken to hospital in Acireale for several injuries. Remaining alert, she reconstructed what happened to the soldiers who heard her. The 87-year-old was arrested for attempted murder and receiving a firearm and after being interrogated in the barracks he was taken to a protected facility under house arrest awaiting validation from the investigating judge.
