The investigating judge of the Court of Modena has validated the arrest, with the precautionary measure of detention in prison, of Andrea Paltrinieri, the engineer who showed up at the Carabinieri barracks on Monday to confess to the murder of his wife Anna Sviridenko.
Andrea Paltrinieri, the 48-year-old engineer who showed up at the barracks of the Modena Carabinieri provincial command last Monday with the body of his wife Anna Sviridenko in the van, remains in prison. The investigating judge of the Modena Court, Carolina Clò, validated the man’s arrest, with the precautionary measure of detention in prison.
Paltrinieri, currently unemployed, immediately admitted to the Carabinieri last Monday to the murder of his wife, 41-year-old Anna Sviridenko, mother of two small children. He immediately told the soldiers that the woman’s lifeless body was in his van parked in front of the same barracks and that it was he who killed her.
Modena murder, Anna’s last phone call to the lawyer: “She was happy”. The husband spent 5 hours in front of the judge
Andrea Paltrinieri, who allegedly killed his wife by strangling her, is accused of multi-aggravated voluntary homicide. Yesterday for five hours the man answered the investigating judge’s questions during the validation hearing inside the Sant’Anna prison in Modena. The motive for femicide it appears to be linked to the disputed custody of the couple’s two young children. She had just obtained sole custody of the children.
Anna Sviridenko was a doctor, she divided her time between Austria and Modena to pursue her career and to be close to her two and three year old children, whose foster care was a cause of conflict with her husband. A friend of the woman wrote on social media that the parents of the femicide victim are traveling to Italy from Minsk to try to bring the body of her daughter home.
“Anna was an exquisite, tireless person, affectionate towards her children beyond all limits, dedicated to work like few people I knew”, the friend recalled to Fanpage.it adding that two years ago the woman came to Italy, finding a second job, “because in Austria they had advised her to be accommodating and try to cope with her husband’s requests and threats”.
