ANZOLA DELL’EMILIA (BOLOGNA). What happened between 3.30pm and 4pm yesterday, in a room on the ground floor, in the local police station of Anzola dell’Emilia, Bologna, is the subject of the interrogation that occupied the deputy prosecutor Stefano all night Dambrouso and Giampiero Gualandi, who was the deputy commander of this station.
What is certain is that Sofia Stefani, 33, a former policeman, was killed by a bullet fired from the service pistol of this 63-year-old former colleague, without there being any other witnesses at the time of the shot and without any hope left to her. to survive. And it is the subject of investigations whether there had been a romantic relationship between Sofia and Gualandi, whether there had been an unrequited interest on his part, whether she had rejected him in some way and, above all, whether the young woman became the The latest of the too many victims of femicide in Italy.
In this town of 12 thousand inhabitants on the Via Emilia, the comments about Gualandi from the people gathered around the local police station are not benevolent. Furthermore, in the prosecutor’s office of the Emilian capital, his name appears in a Finance investigation, on charges of ideological forgery, for having lied to the prosecutor who had questioned him regarding a suspicious contract concerning the installation of some security cameras. The amount of the tender was 156 thousand euros. It turns out that Sofia Stefani had been dismissed by the local police: it is not clear whether the end of the contract had to do with her relationship with Gualandi and why yesterday she was in charge of her, alone in a room with him. It seems that when the other policemen present in the building came running attracted by the shot, the man said that the shot had been fired accidentally while she was cleaning the weapon, and he worked to resuscitate the girl. If this version had been immediately considered valid beyond any doubt by the investigators, it is unlikely that the scientific police would have carried out hours of investigations, nor would the carabinieri have questioned the man for so long. Even assuming that it was an accident, there is still fault. As for the victim, her social networks show her as a person with the typical passions of thirty years old, plus one of hers in particular: the pride of being a traffic policeman. Sofia loved to portray herself in uniform and on duty. Perhaps it was precisely because this dream was shattered that she presented herself at Anzola’s command, from which she never left.
