He left the house with the knife, intent on killing her. A chilling plot to kill her ex-partner, Rossella Nappini, 52, a nurse in Rome: She was killed with at least twenty stab wounds in the entrance hall of the building where she lived with her two children and elderly mother.
The woman's ex-boyfriend, a 45-year-old Moroccan national, was arrested for the femicide. He was a worker who had previously carried out work in the building where the crime took place. He was stopped at four o'clock on Tuesday morning by the men of the Flying Squad of Rome: He is charged with voluntary homicide aggravated by premeditation. The investigators, coordinated by the Prosecutor's Office, arrived at him at the end of a lightning investigation, thanks to listening to a series of witnesses and analyzing the cameras present in the area.
The story provided by the victim's mother was crucial in identifying the man. The woman told investigators that before the fatal attack, the man waited for Rossella to return home to the apartment where she lived in the Primavalle-Trionfale neighborhood. The nurse was attacked around 17 pm on Monday while she was going to the ATM, as told by one of the relatives. An argument, a brief scuffle and then the stab wounds, in sequence, in various parts of the body.
A real massacre in broad daylight, so much so that many residents and neighbors heard the screams. The 45-year-old ran away, taking the knife with him. Investigators interviewed a series of suspects in the offices of the Police Headquarters on Via San Vitale. However, all the pieces of the puzzle led to the North African citizen. The man was stopped in his home, about three kilometers as the crow flies from the place of the murder, where he had returned after killing the woman. An arrest warrant was issued against him as a suspect in a crime and the prosecutor in charge of the case will ask the investigating judge's office to validate the arrest.
The interrogation will take place in the Regina Coeli prison where the suspect was transferred immediately after his arrest. The murder weapon has not yet been found and the police have been searching for it all day, even in garbage bins. Rossella's death has, in fact, destroyed an entire family. Her sister Monica has expressed her anger and frustration on social media for a tragedy that perhaps could have been avoided.
“Unfortunately this time I was unable to save you,” she wrote, implying that the victim had also had to deal with complicated sentimental issues in the past, as some of Rossella’s colleagues would have confirmed. Dismay also for what happened at the San Filippo Neri hospital, one of the historic hospitals of the Capital, where the 52-year-old worked and was appreciated.
“A woman has been killed, once again. This woman was one of our nurses, she was an integral part of our community and it is right that the entire ASL Roma 1 symbolically joins in mourning and in expressing firm condemnation of violence, in all its forms,” the hospital wrote on its Facebook profile, adding that “a femicide is never just a news story. For this reason we must never give in to the trivialization of such a tragedy but remain close to this family and to that of all the victims. There are no real reasons for such acts, it is a barbarity that should make us all reflect and be ashamed.”
Rossella had previously launched appeals to stop the tragedy of feminicides and attacks on women. In 2018, for her birthday, she asked for a gift of "donations for the women's house so they don't suffer violence" as emerges from her Facebook profile, which is now flooded with messages of condolence, even from ordinary citizens.
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