Genoa, the woman killed by the ex had paid for the funeral

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20 February 2021 Thirty stab wounds.

So she was killed in her historic "Jolly Calzature" shop yesterday, just before closing, 69-year-old Clara Ceccarelli.

Now in front of the portcullis many mimosas and flowers.

The hand is that of the former partner, a construction worker with a gambling habit and who in the past had attempted suicide several times.

After hitting the woman, the man fled and was then intercepted by the police a few hours later while attempting suicide in the Galliera area: "I'm the man you are looking for".

At the police station, Renato Scapusi, 59, was not subjected to formal interrogation, but transferred to the Marassi prison to be detained by the judicial police on charges of aggravated voluntary murder.

“There are no other proceedings against him,” said the chief prosecutor of Genoa Francesco Cozzi.

The clothes that the former partner was wearing at the time of the discovery have been seized and will have to be analyzed.

The man's lawyer, Stefano Bertone, said he had "found a person confused and who barely remembered his name".

The prosecutor, Giovanni Arena, ordered the psychiatric report: "I wanted to go back with her, but Clara refused me and so I killed her", the former partner of the victim told investigators.

His hand was armed for the repeated "No" of the woman who had ended their relationship for at least a year, but Scapusi continued to haunt her.

He hadn't given her any respite for months: he had even been seen urinating against her shutter.

Even yesterday he would go to the shop and, when an argument arose, he would repeatedly hit her.

Despite the rescue, the woman died on the spot.

Clara was frightened "she always had bad dreams - said the clerk whom Clara occasionally called into her shop - and two weeks ago she had gone to pay for her funeral. She did not want to burden the elderly father and son".

Even the owner of the bar on the street where she was killed confirms: "He told me, Piero, you know I went to get a job in Staglieno: I want to be cremated".

The street traders say they have not heard anything.

One of them says: "I knew Clara well, she was a wonderful woman. And unfortunately I also knew Renato, we were all afraid of him, he had done many injuries to Clara and she always denounced him. And this thing had been going on for a long time. time. Now I hope that justice will keep him inside. "

Many friends and customers stopped to place some flowers and a simple message printed on a sheet of paper: "You will always be in our hearts, sweet Clara".

The mayor of Genoa Marco Bucci reiterated: "Our society has the task of questioning itself on episodes of such gravity and understanding how to get to erase the term femicide from our chronicles".