Jonathan Maldonato and Soukaina El Basri got married in 2018 and two little girls were born from their marriage. Now he is in prison accused of attempted murder of his wife, known on social media as Siu, an influencer from Biella. The relationship between the two, according to what has been reconstructed, was problematic.
Thirty-seven years old, married to Siu since 2018, the couple has two little girls. He works at the Gattinara (Vercelli) branch of a well-known coffee producing company and has been in prison since Wednesday 22 May on charges of attempting to cause the death of his wife. It’s about Jonathan Maldonato, husband of Soukaina El Basri, an influencer from Biella with 84 thousand followers known on social media as Siu. He is the person who called for help after the mother of his children was injured and who then, after his story immediately appeared full of gaps, changed his version, speaking of a self-harming gesture.
Since the beginning of this story there has been talk of a deteriorated relationship between the couple, despite the various photos of the couple published on social media, on Facebook he calls himself Johnny Jonathan. Now in custody for attempted murder, Maldonato continues to declare himself innocent.
Who is Jonathan Maldonato, husband of the influencer Siu
Thirty-seven years old, Jonathan Maldonato is the husband of Soukaina El Basri, the influencer currently hospitalized in Novara with a chest wound that caused a laceration of her mammary artery. The two, as it emerged, met when they were very young and married in 2018. From their marriage two girls were born. Maldonato works for a well-known coffee producing company, at the Gattinara branch (Vercelli). Jonathan was born in Gattinara, but currently lives in Chiavazza.
Siu’s husband is under investigation for attempted murder, the influencer injured and hospitalized at the end of her life
There were many elements that convinced the Biella prosecutor’s office to transform the man from a suspect at large to a person in custody. According to the investigators of the flying squad of the Biella police headquarters, there are too many things that don’t add up.
On May 16, the young woman was taken to the emergency room of the city hospital with a sort of deep hole in her chest. The husband says that she hurt herself by hitting the corner of a piece of furniture, and before losing consciousness she too talks about an accident. But they don’t believe him, and even the first inspection of the house reinforces the suspicions that things went differently. On May 18, the man was interviewed again by the investigators and changed his story: according to him, his wife voluntarily committed a self-harming gesture. But not even this version is convincing.
Marriage and the complaint of mistreatment
Last May 8, Siu’s husband posted a photo of himself with her and her two daughters on the sofa of their home in Chiavazza, a hamlet of Biella. It seems like the image of a peaceful family, but the testimonies and investigations of the investigators seem to provide a different picture. Not much fitting, among other things, with one complaint of mistreatment presented by the influencer against Jonathan in 2023 (and later withdrawn). Some rumors also speak of a heated confrontation in the hospital, before Maldonato’s arrest, between him and some of Siu’s relatives.
Maldonato was also described as a man very present in his wife’s life, so much so that he often accompanied her on sets and shootings in her work. The tense situation between the two was also confirmed by the prosecutor: “The relationship between husband and wife was problematic”. According to some people close to the couple, she wanted to divorce.
Because Jonathan Maldonato was arrested for attempted murder
Jonathan Maldonato was taken to prison on the evening of May 22nd, after a long interrogation. He did not admit any responsibility for injuring his wife Siu. He was arrested due to various doubts about his story. For this reason and “considering the seriousness of the circumstantial evidence acquired and detecting the materialization of a risk of escape”, the Prosecutor’s Office issued the arrest on charges of attempted multi-aggravated murder.
Maldonato initially claimed that his wife had injured herself after slipping on the corner of a piece of furniture, then when he was already registered under investigation he said that the woman had injured herself in a “self-harming” gesture. “A second inspection was carried out by the investigators with the person under investigation and his lawyer at the property under seizure during which Maldonato indicated the presumed weapon with which El Basri would have hit herself – explains Camelio – Following the ‘examination of the people informed of the facts, of the first observations provided by the medical examiner appointed by the Prosecutor’s Office and of the results of the first investigative acts, the contradictory nature of this further version was once again highlighted, also in relation to the type of weapon indicated by Maldonato”.
