Milan. Quarrel with knife in car, wife disarms husband and kills him

Milan Via Amantea

• Milan: stabbed to death, wife in custody

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13 June 2021 The prosecutor Francesca Gentilini will present to the Gip tomorrow, June 14, the request for validation of the arrest of the woman who stabbed her husband, Roberto Iannello, 55, at the height of a car dispute in the area Baggio, western suburbs, in Via Amantea at the corner of Via Quinto Romano, in Milan. The episode took place at around 2.15 pm yesterday 12 June. 

The woman was found by the Carabinieri in a state of shock, about a kilometer from the place where the man was wounded, who later became mortal, wounded in the hand and with blood stained clothes. Last night in front of the prosecutor had made use of the right not to answer. It is not yet known when he will have to appear before the investigating judge to validate the arrest for aggravated murder because it was committed against his spouse.

The fight broke out on the street, in their car, and ended in tragedy. There is the hypothesis that the two were discussing a separation after the last stormy times of their union. It is the same woman who spoke to the investigators that she wanted the separation that the man did not accept. It would not have been the first time that the woman would have found herself in strong contrast with the man in an attempt to arrive at a consensual separation.

Investigators speculate that at the height of the car quarrel, the husband attacked his wife with a kitchen knife. The woman was able to snatch the weapon from his hands and hit him with four blows, two of which were lethal, in the throat, and then managed to get out of the car and run away. Her husband tried to chase her but as soon as he got out of the car he fell to the ground due to the severity of his injuries and rescuers found him there. 

Some witnesses, who witnessed the tragedy that was taking place aboard an old green Seat Marbella, support that the crime would have taken place in this way. The dynamics and the reason for the dramatic event, however, are still being investigated. Someone instead tells of a horn that sounded continuously, as if the injured were trying to ask for help. A woman who lives nearby said she urged him to resist after he fell to the ground, but the man no longer spoke. The 55-year-old, from Milan, cashier in a large supermarket, with a clean record, will die some time after his arrival at the San Carlo hospital in Milan: his throat wounds are too serious.

The woman was first taken to the Fatebenefratelli hospital, to be medicated, then to the barracks, to try to get the first statements which, however, seem not to have arrived. She was then accompanied to the Prosecutor's Office in the late afternoon to be questioned by the prosecutor on duty and to tell the situation in which the family tragedy would have matured.

A story, therefore, with the reasons still to be explored.