Modena, 13 June 2024 – “He hates me so much. How can I trust him. I believe this war will never end.” A very sweet voice behind which, however, there was a profound suffering. A torment for the uncertain future of their children, tossed between Italy and Austria, destabilized to the point that the eldest – he said – had started to stutter.
Modena murder, Anna Sviridenko strangled by her ex-husband Andrea Paltrinieri (in the circle). Her ordeal in messages to friends
It was this one Anna Sviridenkothe Courage mother who was brutally killed in Modena by her ex-husband on Monday evening Andrea Paltrinieri, 48 years old. Yesterday the man, heard before the investigating judge, gave an interrogation, telling what happened in the hours preceding the crime, before going on Monday evening to the provincial headquarters of the Carabinieri in Modena with the lifeless body of his 40-year-old ex-wife, mother of his two children curled up in the trunk.
The suspect was accused ofmulti-aggravated homicide from premeditation and from the fact that it occurred against the spouse: the hearing took place on Monday in Austria to establish the territorial jurisdiction of the proceedings. The court would then rule on theexclusive custodyrequested by the children’s mother.
Time ago, apparently and by every means, Paltrinieri was trying to obtain that custody first. The victim’s friendsa doctor originally from Belarus, specialized in nuclear medicine at the Innsbruck hospital and radiology specialist at the Modena Polyclinic, tell how the 48 year old was aggressive with the victim, ‘control freak’ not for a few months, but always. At the outcome of the hearing, on Monday, the man would therefore have awaited the arrival of his ex-wife in Modena (he would have had to pick up the children and, the following day, take them to the seaside) and then strangle her first with a belt and then with an electric cable, perhaps inside the same van then used to transport the body to the police station.
Yesterday the police they carried out a inspection of the suspect’s home, but it seems there are no traces of the brutal crime. That evening the victim’s children were playing with their paternal grandparents in that very building.
In the audio that the doctor in the last few months she sent to a friend, all the concern about that one shines through conflictual separation by the accused but also the suffering in witnessing the man’s attempts to ‘smear’ her figure and keep her away from the children, inventing excuses not to bring them back to her.
“Andrea told me that the older child has ear infections. He told me he’s bringing it two days late. It’s always a constant postponement, as if she did it on purpose. I understand that it’s bad to think but always these illnesses during the weeks in Modena – he stated –. I’m so sorry, Andrea does as he pleases. I heard that he took the children to Naples but I heard about it from others. It’s not like she told me they were there. It seems to me that this information should be told to the mother first; It’s not like I always find out about her in a roundabout way. He’s such a liar…”.
Despite the difficulties, the victim she never denigrated the children’s fatherwhile underlining the exasperation he experienced. “I’m desperate – he stated – I don’t know how long I will be able to live this life. There’s always this tension, this ‘internal war’ which I believe will never end.” In another audio she explained to her friend how difficult it was to also agree on health insurance for children in Italy. “I’m afraid that really it will play a bad joke on me. (referring to the man’s ‘will’ to take them away from him)”.
