Migrant Kills Regular Partner While High on Drugs: 'I Don't Know Why I Did It'

A single woman, perhaps fragile, ended up in what investigators call "a bad situation," with her house open to various acquaintances and friends. One of whom killed her, during a trivial argument while she was under the influence of cocaine. And now he can't explain why he did it. This is the scenario reconstructed by investigators of the brutal murder of Sabrina Malipiero, 52, a supermarket clerk, mother of two grown children, separated from her husband for years, found on Saturday in a pool of blood in her home in via Pantano in Pesaro. He had opened the door to his murderer, Zakaria Safri, 38 years old, a Moroccan legally resident in Italy, an unemployed painter, and despite his financial difficulties, a cocaine user. A regular visitor to the house. Once inside, a denigrating remark from the woman triggered an abnormal reaction: the man punched Sabrina, leaving her face swollen, then stabbed her twice in the neck, one of which hit her jugular, causing her to bleed to death. A massacre that Safri, in front of the investigators, tried to justify by saying he was under the influence of cocaine. He washed the murder weapon, a kitchen knife, leaving it at home. He then made a series of rambling gestures, leaving a blood-stained T-shirt lying around, and taking away some objects and personal effects. He fled in the victim's Daewoo Matiz: a car he had actually borrowed several times and then abandoned in another part of the city. The woman's body was discovered nearly 24 hours later, around noon on Saturday, by Sabrina's son, after his mother failed to show up for work. The investigations coordinated by prosecutors Silvia Cecchi and Giovanni Fabrizio Narbone and conducted by the Pesaro Flying Squad, soon focused on the victim's most recent and frequent visits, analyzing the contacts on her cell phone. About ten people were summoned to the police station. But while the others left after being heard, Safri remained. What aroused the investigators' suspicions were first of all his swollen right hand (with which he had punched the woman he called "my friend Sabrina"), then a scratch on his chest (which the victim gave him while desperately trying to defend herself). And also the keys to the black Daewoo Matiz, the objects (mostly costume jewelry) from Sabrina's house found in her house. For hours Safri denied, providing misleading and rambling explanations that were increasingly unsustainable, going so far as to say that he had arrived at his friend's apartment and found her already dead or dying, that he had tried to help her and then ran away out of fear. Only early this morning did he collapse and confess everything: he is now in the Villa Fastiggi prison, accused of voluntary homicide with the aggravating circumstance of futile motives. Because no one has yet been able to provide a sensible explanation for what happened.