• Increasing femicide, 142 women killed in 2018
  • Two women killed within hours of each other

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January 30, 2020 He was interrogated all night in front of his lawyer. Then he confessed. Vincenzo Frasillo, 53, unemployed, from Mazara del Vallo segregated and beaten his wife to death for 3 days. The man did not take any care of the woman, Rosalia Garofalo 52 years old, with whom he had been married for thirty years.

He called 911 last night saying that his wife was dead. But when the 118 doctors and police officers intervened in the apartment they found themselves in front of another scene. The woman, in fact, was lying on the double bed and showed evident signs of beating all over her body.

To trigger the violence, investigators argue, the obsession with being betrayed by the woman. The man, who was in custody, was taken to the Trapani prison.

"A mosaic of bruises, a terrible vision". Thus describes the scene of the discovery of Rosalia Garofalo the manager of the Trapani mobile team, Fabrizio Mustaro, at the Adnkronos.

Nobody heard the woman's cries because the house is in the open countryside. "The lady in the past had filed two complaints of beatings against her husband but had withdrawn them - explains Mustaro - she said she had taken refuge in a community for abused women