In just a few hours, two tragic episodes of femicide have profoundly shaken the communities of Arezzo and Cagliari, bringing to the fore stories of desperation and family conflicts that ended dramatically. In Arezzo, Alessandro Sacchi, 80, killed his wife Serenella Mugnai, 72, who suffered from Alzheimer's, with a gunshot.
Sacchi, worn out by his wife's illness and the burden of her care that rested solely on him, committed the desperate act during the night. At 00:30 a.m., he grabbed a legally-held 7.65 caliber pistol and shot his wife. Immediately afterward, he called neighbors to report the incident and waited for the police to arrive. police in silence.
Almost simultaneously, in Cagliari, Luciano Hellies, 77, stabbed his wife Ignazia Tumatis, 59, to death at the height of an argument. Tumatis had just returned home after watching the Italy-Spain football match when the argument with her husband began. Having lived separately in the house for about two years, with separate bedrooms but sharing meals, tensions between the two were frequent.
The argument escalated into violence when Hellies grabbed a large kitchen knife and stabbed his wife at least nine times. After the crime, Hellies called one of his four daughters to confess what had happened: "I killed my mother", he said by phone. In both cases, the authorities intervened promptly.
In Arezzo, the police found Sacchi in a state of shock, while in Cagliari the officers stopped Hellies, still dressed in his bloody clothes. The doctors' attempts to revive Ignazia Tumatis were in vain, and the investigators of the flying squad, the coroner and the prosecutor Diana Lecca arrived on the scene. While he was being taken to the police station, Hellies uttered a few words: "He laughed in my face and I couldn't see anymore."
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