71-year-old woman killed in her home in Palosco, son arrested
Emilia Bianchi found dead in bed with over thirty stab wounds. Her son Mattia Bonassi arrested and transferred to Bergamo prison.
Family murder in the province of Bergamo
Emilia Bianchi, 71 years old, was found lifeless in her home on via Paolo VI in Palosco on Sunday 8 November. According to bresciatoday.it, the body bore over thirty wounds from a bladed weapon inflicted probably whilst she lay in bed. Preliminary assessments suggest that death occurred during the night between Friday 1 and Saturday 2 November, remaining undiscovered for almost two days until it was found.
A relative, unable to contact the woman, raised the alarm. Local police officers attended the scene, along with carabinieri from the Martinengo station and emergency responders from 118, who discovered the scene inside the home. In the afternoon of the same day, Mattia Bonassi, 45 years old, the victim's son, was arrested on suspicion of murder. Assisted by a lawyer, he made no statements to investigators and was subsequently transferred to Bergamo prison.
The investigation is being coordinated by the Prosecutor's Office of Bergamo. The carabinieri of Martinengo, supported by colleagues from Treviglio, initiated the preliminary investigations. An expert from the Institute of Legal Medicine in Pavia was tasked with conducting forensic examinations and the autopsy. Among the items examined were several knives found in the home; one of the investigative hypotheses concerns a large kitchen knife that is said to have been found on the street during the night between Friday and Saturday.
An alarm had been raised as early as Friday evening, when Bianchi failed to appear at a dinner with her former military conscripts. Several concerned friends had attempted to ring the doorbell without receiving a response. The mayor of Palosco, Mario Mazza, reported that a relative had come to contact the local police commander during a celebration being held at the parish centre 50 metres away from the home.
Emilia Bianchi had been a widow for many years and had three children. After her husband's death she had managed a family plant nursery. Investigators are reconstructing family relationships to clarify the time and precise circumstances of the murder, the motive and any possible involvement of other individuals.
This case falls within a context of family violence. A few days earlier, during the night between Monday 2 and Tuesday 3 November, another similar murder had been committed in the province of Cremona. A young man aged 21, Eduart Xhani, had killed his mother Meleqe Lusha, 39 years old, by stabbing her in their home on via Tagliata in Chiari. After leaving the scene, the young man presented himself voluntarily to the Cremona carabinieri and confessed to the crime. In that case too, the motive remains to be clarified.
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