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May 06, 2020 He flung himself on his wife with ferocity and violence, hit her at least forty times with a knife, while she tried to escape and protect herself. Then he stabbed himself several times in the chest, trying to kill himself. Giovanni Murtas, the 57-year-old unemployed carpenter who killed his 51-year-old wife Marisa Pireddu yesterday after a fight in their home in Via Turati in Serramanna in southern Sardinia, is now hospitalized in the cardiac surgery department of Brotzu.   

The man was operated on during the night because of the serious injuries to his heart and lungs. His condition is serious and he is still in danger of life and in a reserved prognosis. The arrest for murder will be formalized in the next few hours.

According to what was reconstructed by the investigators, before yesterday afternoon in the house at number 42 in via Turati there had been no violent quarrels, enough to require the intervention of the police. Yesterday around 6 pm the furious dispute broke out. The 57-year-old grabbed a knife he made when he was a carpenter and threw himself on his wife repeatedly hitting her. After stabbing her, he tried to commit suicide and looked out the window shouting a few sentences: "I can't take it without her, I won't be able to do it". Then he lay down next to his wife's body in the bedroom where the 118 doctors and the carabinieri found him. In the next hours the prosecutor, Nicola Giua Marassi, who coordinates investigations of the military of the Compagnia di Sanluri, will entrust the task to the doctor, Roberto Demontis, for the autopsy that will be performed in the coming days.