A femicide was averted in Terzigno: the 32-year-old woman stabbed in the chest by her neighbor miraculously survived.
A sudden, ferocious act, which only by chance did not turn into yet another femicide.
The attacker, a 40-year-old man, lives in the apartment immediately below the victim. For some time, there had been constant friction between the two, typical condominium disputes: laundry hung out to dry, loud noises, heels on the floor, the car in the wrong place.
The last argument, however, degenerated into bloodshed.
The trap
According to the Carabinieri's reconstruction, the man allegedly turned off his neighbor's water supply, knowing full well that she would come downstairs to turn it back on. It was a premeditated, calculated act. Meanwhile, in the kitchen, he allegedly grabbed a large kitchen knife and positioned himself near the meters on the ground floor.
When the woman arrived, unaware, he violently hit her in the chest.
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The arrest
Immediately after the attack, the man barricaded himself in his home. Carabinieri officers from the Terzigno station, alerted by neighbors, reached him and, after brief negotiations, managed to gain entry and subdue him. The knife, still bloody, was on the kitchen table.
The 40-year-old was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and transferred to prison. The woman, hospitalized, is not in life-threatening condition but remains under observation.
An endless plague
The story of Terzigno could have been yet another of a murdered woman, the victim of a violence that knows no respite in Italy.
Since the beginning of the year, the number of femicides has continued to rise, with a frequency that leaves no room for indifference. Husbands, ex-partners, relatives, neighbors: the face of the attacker changes, but the same ferocity, the same underlying contempt for women's lives and freedom, remains.
Behind every attempted murder like this lies a collective tragedy: a society still unable to prevent, educate, and intervene in time.
And every time a woman survives, like the 32-year-old from Terzigno, it's only by chance. But it should never be a matter of luck.
Comments (1)
We're all happy the story didn't have a tragic outcome, but in any case, it wouldn't have been considered femicide. Unfortunately, we're increasingly seeing the misuse of this term, which, as should be well known by now, refers only to the killing of a woman as such, when she exercises or claims an independent role in a man's emotional or family relationship. It has nothing to do, therefore, with personal disagreements or arguments that occur in apartment buildings.