Aprica has kept her mother who died for weeks at home. Next to her is her husband, malnourished and with a gangrenous leg. The son: «Everything is fine»

“Everything’s fine, mum and dad are in bed.” Him sitting on the sofa, his parents in the next room. When the police crossed the threshold of the room Anna Maria Squarza, 90 years oldshe was lying on the mattress, a sheet covering her face, dead for at least two weeks. Next to the Husband89 years old, in very serious state of malnutritionskeletal and with a gangrene in the leg. “There’s no need for you to come in, they’re fine,” his son reportedly told the soldiers. Antonio Monticelli, 59 years oldinvestigated for abandonment of an incompetent person and concealment of a corpse.

«A scene from a horror film», say the rescuers who intervened late on Friday afternoon in the apartment in a condominium a few steps from the center of Aprica, in Valtellina. A rented house where the couple, originally from Veronashe had been on holiday several times in the past and where she had moved permanently with her son during the pandemic.

They were the ones who asked for the police to intervene the neighbors, worried about the strong smell coming from the three-room apartment, now seized. The television was on, the door was not locked, the marshal, after ringing several times without receiving an answer, entered: after a few minutes the macabre discovery, the woman’s body in an advanced state of decomposition, the husband unable to speak, the son in the living room. “Dad didn’t want me to call anyone,” she would try to justify. The investigations are coordinated by the Sondrio Prosecutor’s Office, directed by Piero Basilone. After the inspection by the magistrate on duty and the investigations by the military, the elderly man was taken to hospital. An autopsy has been arranged to establish the causes of the death of the ninety-year-old, based on the results the position of Antonio Monticelli, hospitalized in the Psychiatry department.

«We hadn’t seen his parents for weeks, he rarely went out, always with his head down. He bought cigarettes and went home,” say the neighbors. The man, unemployed, seeI lived on my father Giorgio’s pension. They hadn’t returned to Verona for years. A cousin and an aunt in Veneto, no other relatives. Just the three of them, always together.