After killing Giulia Tramontano in their home in senago, between 19pm and 20pm on Saturday evening, the companion, Alessandro Impagniatiello he also tried to contact his lover, the American colleague with whom the 29-year-old, seven months pregnant, had met that afternoon.
Article Key Points
- 1 He tried to burn Giulia's body twice
- 2 Alessandro betrayed by mistakes, in his alibi a non-existent address
- 3 Mayor of Sant'Antimo announces: June 2nd celebration cancelled after Giulia's death
- 4 The parish priest of Sant'Antimo: Giulia's femicide is a double homicide
- 5 In Senago flags at half-mast and mourning
"She's gone, now I'm free"', he allegedly told his lover, swearing that the child Giulia was carrying in her womb was not his. However, the colleague, scared, preferred not to meet Impagniatiello, suggesting only a long-distance confrontation "from two windows".
Several residents waited for Alessandro Impagnatiello to leave his house to offend him, before he went to the police station to confess to the crime. “It was me”: this is the phrase repeated several times to the investigators by Alessandro Impagniatiello, the 30-year-old barman who, without shedding a tear, confessed last night to the murder of Julia Tramontano, the 29-year-old 7-months pregnant woman who disappeared on Saturday from Senago and was found dead this night.
The gap of via Monte Rosa where the body had been hidden under layers of cellophane was indicated by Impagniatiello himself, who after having stabbed Giulia to death and attempted to burn her body twice, transported it in the trunk of his car to that point.
He tried to burn Giulia's body twice
The investigation revealed that he had attempted to burn the woman's body twice, after killing her with 2-3 stab wounds. The first time he tried to set fire to the body in home bathtub with alcohol and then later in another area outside the house in Senago, a family box apparently, he tried to burn it with gasoline. The Prosecutor's Office also contested in the arrest warrant theaggravating circumstance of premeditation.
The PM of Milan Alessia Menegazzo and the adjunct Letizia Mannella they will also charge Alessandro Impagniatiello with premeditation. In the afternoon the victim had met Impagniatiello's lover and then had arranged to meet with her partner for a "clarifying meeting" in their home in Senago. There the man struck her with two or three stab wounds aimed at vital organs, before attempting to burn the body and transport it in the trunk of his car on Monte Rosa Street, in Senago.
Alessandro betrayed by mistakes, in his alibi a non-existent address
He provided a non-existent address to the investigators and was betrayed by his contradictions Alessandro Impagnatiello. When he went to the Carabinieri on Sunday 28 May to report the disappearance, he said he had left home to buy some marijuana but providing a completely non-existent address.
From there the investigations of the investigators led by the prosecutor Alessia Menegazzo and the deputy Letizia Mannella on phones, cars, biological traces, statements until the discovery of the body this night. From what we learn, it was the barman himself who provided the investigators with the indication of the place where to find Giulia Tramontano. During the interrogation she did not cry.
Mayor of Sant'Antimo announces: June 2nd celebration cancelled after Giulia's death
“Tomorrow we had planned the June 2nd celebration which obviously I had cancelled, as a city we will proclaim a day of mourning in honor of Giulia's memory”. She made it known Massimo Buonanno mayor of Sant'Antimo, in the province of Naples, Giulia Tramontano's hometown.
“In recent months – adds the mayor – we have done a lot to raise awareness against violence against women. We are all shocked by what happened. We join the family in their pain”.
The parish priest of Sant'Antimo: Giulia's femicide is a double homicide
"I am scared by what happened. It is not just a femicide, it is a double homicide since Giulia was pregnant with a child for 7 months. I don't know what to do for the parents, we can only pray." He says it Don Salvatore Coviello, parish priest of church of Santa Lucia in Sant'Antimo in the province of Naples, the hometown of Giulia Tramontano, the 29-year-old killed in Senago.
“I knew Giulia, she was baptized in the parish and made her first communion – continues Don Coviello -. She was a very normal girl, she wanted to become a mother, she was a girl with sound principles. Giulia wanted to live”.
In Senago flags at half-mast and mourning
"We have already decided to proclaim a day of mourning and I have given orders to fly the flags at half-mast." He announced it Magda Beretta, mayor of Senago, the town on the outskirts of Milan where Giulia Tramontano was killed. During the four days of searching, apprehension had grown in Senago and hopes of finding the 29-year-old alive had diminished.
"Unfortunately, things went as we all feared since yesterday", says the mayor, who as soon as she found out about the discovery of Giulia's body, wrote to the Tramontano family, with whom she has been keeping in touch in recent days. "I can only imagine what they are feeling," says Beretta, who in addition to the city mourning and the flags of the Municipality at half-mast - she says - "will evaluate other initiatives to show our closeness."
Article published on 1 June 2023 - 11:17
