Modena, femicide today: 48-year-old shows up at the barracks with the body of his murdered wife

A feminicide it was consumed at Modena in the night between Monday and Tuesday. A 48-year-old man, Andrea Paltrinieri, showed up right in his heart during the night at the command of the Carabinieri with the wife’s corpseAnna Sviridenko, 41 years old, a very well-known doctor in Austria and mother of two children aged 5 and 3: their mother had returned to Modena for them, she wanted to take them with her and take them abroad, where she lived.

The body was located in the trunk of a van: the woman was curled up, with her head stuck in a black bag, tied around her neck with an electric cable: once the bag was removed, the soldiers also found a belt tied around her neck. The victim, therefore, was strangledprobably a few hours before being loaded into the van.

Legal war for children

Sviridenko, an Italian of Russian origin and resident in Austria, as emerged from the initial investigations, had initiated a procedure before the judicial authority of Innsbruck (Austria) to regulate theprimary custody of the two minor children and the exercise of visitation rights. On 17 May 2023, the prevailing placement in the mother’s home and the father’s right to visit were decided. In January the suspect had appealed to the civil court of Modena for separation with charges against the woman, contesting the Austrian jurisdiction.

He didn’t want to give up

Despite the appeal of her husband (computer engineer and pentathlon enthusiast), the Modena court had confirmed the provisions of Innsbruck. The judges inform the prosecutor’s office, without taking urgent temporary measures, as there is already a decision from a foreign EU judge, recognizable in Italy. In May there was the preliminary question of jurisdiction (i.e. territorial jurisdiction). In February the victim had presented another request to the Innsbruck court, to obtain theexclusive custody of the two children.

Strangled with an electric cable

From the first rumours, the woman seemed to have returned to Modena precisely to collect her children and bring them home, when she was killed by her husband, with an electric cable and then a belt tied around her neck. Arrested, the murderer will be questioned in the next few hours. She was a doctor: she had two degrees, one in Medicine and one in Dentistry. He had been living in Austria for some time and worked at a clinic in Innsbruck. Previously you also worked in hospital facilities in Italy, in Trentino and then also in the province of Bologna. Researcher and publicist, he was taking a specialization in radiology at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Unimore). «Our community is devastated by the news of the brutal killing of one of its radiology residents – writes Carlo Adolfo Porro, rector of Unimore -. Femicide is a cancer that we can no longer tolerate, a shame that stains our humanity, and there are no mincing words to condemn it: it is a vile, inhuman and unacceptable act. It is time for our society to rise up forcefully against this barbarism.” Meanwhile, the investigations by the Carabinieri who located in the evening continue a bouquet of flowers at the entrance to the barracks in memory of the woman.

With that consumed at ModenaI am 27 feminicides since the beginning of the year in Italy. Before today’s event, the last one had been that of Giada Zanola, whose body had been thrown from an overpass on the A4 between Padua and Venice. For this murder the Padua prosecutor’s office arrested his partner Andrea Favero.

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