Naples. Twelve stab wounds, an unheard of brutality. Then, the escape and the confession: 'I killed my partner'.
Dramatic scenes of the brutal femicide, yet another, which today bears the name of Ornella Pinto, who died at the Cardarelli hospital in Naples after a desperate attempt by doctors to save her.
The confession
Giuseppe Iacomino, a 43-year-old Neapolitan, the woman's partner for about six years, confessed to the murder. After stabbing her 12 times in the abdomen, he left her dying in their home in Naples, in the San Carlo neighborhood, and ran away. An escape that began around 4 am and lasted 350 kilometers from via Filippo Cavolino in the San Carlo Arena neighborhood of Naples, to Montegabbione in the province of Terni, a small town with just over a thousand inhabitants where Pinotto Iacomino rang the intercom of the local carabinieri station shortly after 7 am. "I killed my partner," he said and was arrested. Transferred to the Terni prosecutor's office for questioning, he was arrested for voluntary homicide. Deputy prosecutor Elena Neri, of the Terni prosecutor's office, who questioned him in the afternoon, ordered his arrest and transfer to prison on charges of aggravated voluntary homicide.
The struggle to survive
While Iacomino confessed in a few words to the brutal murder, Ornella Pinto was still alive and fighting with all her strength to survive and with her the doctors at the hospital Cardarelli of Naples who were trying to save her, attempting to stop the devastation of 12 stab wounds to the abdomen of a young woman of 40 years. She had arrived in red code at the emergency room of the Cardarelli hospital in Naples in conditions that the doctors immediately judged to be very serious, before dawn. Her sister, to whom Ornella, mortally wounded and bleeding, had managed to make a phone call, answered her cry for help. Then, the phone call to 118 and the help: the desperate race towards the Cardarelli.
The 40-year-old's fight for life lasted several hours: she was resuscitated several times and then underwent a very delicate surgical operation to stop the rampant bleeding. It was necessary to resuscitate her several times. Then, the surrender. Death - explains a note from the management of the Cardarelli - occurred at 10.35:XNUMX due to cardiac arrest at the end of a delicate operation through which the teams of the Trauma Center and Thoracic Surgery tried to resolve the deep lung lesions. "It is yet another episode of aggression and murder against a woman," underlined the general manager of Cardarelli, Giuseppe Longo, "a vile act of unprecedented brutality. Events like this should push us to reflect deeply on what is happening. We are close to the family of this young mother and to all women."
The investigations
Ornella Pinto leaves behind a four-year-old child – also an unwitting victim of yet another femicide – who was at home with his parents at the time of the attack.
The investigations are being conducted by the police of the Naples Flying Squad, coordinated by the deputy prosecutor of the IV section (weak groups) Fabio De Cristofaro, who today, March 13, collected testimonies to clarify the contours of yet another brutal violence against a woman, a mother. Investigators are hypothesizing the crime of voluntary homicide against Pinotto Iacomino, who this morning confessed in front of the Carabinieri of Montegabbione. The investigators, after having seized the cell phones of the victim and her partner, have interviewed the family members, relatives, neighbors and friends of the couple.
The testimonials
There is shock and pain among the residents of Via Cavolino, in the San Carlo all'Arena neighborhood of Naples. The news of the murder of Ornella Pinto took everyone by surprise. The two, according to what the neighbors of the couple who lived on the third floor of a building with many apartments, in the popular area of the city, near the bus depot, reported, appeared to be a quiet couple with no particular problems, or at least that's what they gave the impression of. According to what the people gathered in the street said, it was the sister who called 118 after receiving a phone call from the victim who was later found in a pool of blood.
Ornella Pinto is the fourteenth victim of femicide since the beginning of the year in Italy: not a number but a woman and a mother killed with unheard-of brutality by a man. A massacre that shows no signs of stopping.
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