IT incident archive
Source-backed homicide and attempted homicide records documented in IT. This page summarizes the archive's documented floor for the country; it is not an official total or a representative sample.
Read the methodology and limitations
- Documented records
- 47
- Cities represented
- 37
- Latest incident date
- 15 August 2026
- Latest review
- 16 August 2026
Documented floor by year
| Year | Documented here | Official reference |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 44 records | — |
| 2025 | 2 records | — |
| 2024 | 1 record | 336 |
Official reference figures are from Eurostat where available. Latest IT official figure in this dataset: 336 for 2024.
Current judicial status
- 35Alleged
- 10Charged
- 1Convicted
- 1Acquitted
Latest judicial-status entries
- Palermo, IT
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- Trani, IT
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- Verona, IT
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- Lanzo Torinese, IT
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- Cervia, IT
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- Prato, IT
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- Torino, IT
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- Roma, IT
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Latest documented records
- Homicide in palermo, IT
· Alleged · 1 source
A 45-year-old man was found dead in the street in the ZEN quarter of Palermo on 15 August 2026. His body was lying in via Costante Girardengo, and the Carabinieri were alerted by a telephone call. According to an initial reconstruction, the victim had surprised thieves who were rummaging through garages belonging to the public housing blocks. A struggle followed and he was struck in the face, reportedly with a screwdriver. A forensic pathologist attended the scene to establish the cause of death, and several people were called to the Carabinieri barracks to help reconstruct what had happened. No arrest had been reported at the time of the cited report.
- Homicide in trani, IT
· Alleged · 4 sources
An 18-year-old man died in Trani, in Apulia, in the early hours of 13 August 2026 after being stabbed during a brawl. He was struck three times, including a wound to the back, shortly after midnight in the pinetina area of via Andria, where families with children were also present. He was taken first to a medical post in Trani and then to the hospital in Bisceglie, where he died soon afterwards of his injuries. The victim, who lived in nearby Andria, had been at a barbecue with friends in an area where young people had gathered to watch a solar eclipse. According to the carabinieri's initial reconstruction, a second group arrived, an argument escalated into punches and kicks, and the stabbing followed. Investigators examined surveillance camera footage of the fight and interviewed the young people from both groups. A 17-year-old is under investigation for the homicide. He turned himself in after learning that the victim had died and, in the carabinieri barracks in Trani, admitted inflicting the wounds while maintaining that he had been reacting to an assault. His lawyer said the dispute between the two had arisen over a shared interest in a girl. The knife used, legally held and bought from a gun shop, had not been recovered. The investigation is coordinated by the Trani public prosecutor's office and the juvenile prosecutor's office in Bari.
- Attempted homicide in lanzo torinese, IT
· Alleged · 1 source
Six cyclists were struck by a car shortly before 10:00 on 9 August 2026 near Lanzo Torinese, in the Turin metropolitan area, on the road towards Coassolo. The incident followed a roadside argument described by reporters as being over a trivial matter. After the first impact the driver is reported to have turned the car around and driven at the group a second time. All six cyclists survived. Four were injured with various trauma and fractures: two were airlifted to the CTO hospital and two were taken to the Giovanni Bosco hospital. The driver, a 73-year-old man, presented himself to the carabinieri and was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. The public prosecutor placed him under house arrest.
- Homicide in prato, IT
· Alleged · 2 sources
A 32-year-old man was found killed on the evening of 5 August 2026 in a holding cell at the La Dogaia prison in Prato, Tuscany, after a fight between inmates. He was held in the wing reserved for sex offenders, sharing the cell with three other prisoners. A post-mortem inspection found a head injury caused by a blunt object and bleeding from the nose, along with bruising inside the upper lip and a laceration to the left side of the forehead. The Prato public prosecutor's office is investigating the death as manslaughter arising from an intentional assault (omicidio preterintenzionale). The inquiry, led by prosecutors and carried out by the prison police and the Prato flying squad, is working to reconstruct events, identify who caused the death, and establish the motive for the fight. Forensic police also attended the scene. No arrest has been reported. Prosecutors described the death as part of a continuing wave of violence at the overcrowded facility, which holds some 640 inmates in cells that in many cases — including the one where the killing occurred — hold four prisoners each.
- Homicide in verona, IT
· Alleged · 3 sources
An 80-year-old woman was found dead on the morning of 31 July 2026 in her home in the Borgo Venezia district of Verona, in via Boccioni. She had been stabbed. Neighbours reported hearing screams. According to initial findings, the victim suffered from a degenerative illness. Her 52-year-old son, with whom she lived, was arrested and immediately admitted responsibility for the killing.
- Attempted homicide in grumo nevano, IT
· Alleged · 1 source
A 70-year-old man was beaten and seriously injured on 29 July 2026 in Grumo Nevano, in the province of Naples. According to reporting, a broken window at a social club for elderly people escalated into a violent quarrel. An 18-year-old was arguing with another man, and when the 70-year-old tried to separate them he fell to the ground; the teenager then kicked him in the face, leaving him bleeding on the ground. The victim was taken to hospital in Frattamaggiore, where his condition was described as critical and his prognosis reserved. The 18-year-old was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. Part of the assault was captured on video.
- Homicide in verona, IT
· Alleged · 1 source
A man died in Verona after being beaten during a brawl in Piazza Pradaval on 26 July 2026, in an area covered by a local exclusion order. He suffered severe head trauma from repeated kicks and punches and died twelve days later in the Borgo Trento hospital. The victim was a non-EU national. His age was not reported. The Verona public prosecutor's office, which had initially treated the case as aggravated assault, reclassified the investigation as homicide after his death. No arrests had been made at the time of the cited report. Investigators are reconstructing the incident from high-definition municipal surveillance footage and other video recordings.
- Homicide in quartu sant'elena, IT
· Alleged · 1 source
A 39-year-old man shot two members of his family at dawn on 23 July 2026 in the hinterland of Cagliari, in Sardinia. At around 05:45 the carabinieri operations room in Quartu Sant'Elena was alerted by the emergency medical service to a 47-year-old woman, the suspect's wife, who had been shot in the head in the coastal village of Solanas; the gunman left the scene by car. A second call at about 06:10 reported a further shooting in the Margine Rosso district of Quartu Sant'Elena, where his 42-year-old brother was found dead at their parents' home, killed by a gunshot to the torso. At about 06:15 the suspect, a Cagliari man who held firearms legally, presented himself at a carabinieri barracks and stated that he had shot his wife and his brother. The woman was taken to hospital in a critical condition and survived. Investigators' initial reconstruction points to family conflict as the motive.
- Homicide in bari sardo, IT
· Alleged · 1 source
A 19-year-old man was stabbed to death at around 18:00 on 21 July 2026 at a sports ground in Bari Sardo, in the Ogliastra province of Sardinia. According to the account carabinieri from Lanusei consider most likely, he drove his car to the ground and deliberately struck a 21-year-old woman with whom he had previously had a relationship, throwing her violently against a planter. She was airlifted to hospital in Cagliari with trauma to both legs and survived. The woman's younger brother, a minor, and her current boyfriend were at the ground and gave chase. When they caught up with the car, the brother is reported to have opened the driver's door and a struggle followed in which the driver was stabbed several times. Emergency medical crews, including a helicopter, could not save him and he died about ten minutes after they reached him. Both suspects fled; the boyfriend was traced and questioned the same evening, and investigators believe the knife was his although he is not thought to have struck the blows. The minor had not been located, and searches of both homes had been carried out. Witnesses gave carabinieri and the prosecutor two versions of events, and the sequence remains under investigation.
- Homicide in cervia, IT
· Alleged · 2 sources
A 54-year-old man was beaten to death in the car park of viale Tritone at Pinarella di Cervia, on the Ravenna coast, during the night of 18–19 July 2026. He was living in a camper van parked there. According to the investigators' reconstruction, he was confronted in the car park near his camper van, tried to get away, and was caught and struck repeatedly with kicks and punches to the head and chest, including after he was already on the ground. He managed to move a few metres before collapsing beside the tyre of a lorry. Carabinieri who had been called to the area on the morning of 19 July over damage to a nearby camper van found him lying seriously injured with clear signs of the beating. He was taken to the Bufalini hospital in Cesena, where he died of his injuries on 22 July. On 7 August 2026 four young people aged between 19 and 23, from the Forlì area, were detained and taken to prison, accused of aggravated joint homicide committed for futile motives. Investigators reached them through footage from public and private CCTV cameras and from a lorry's dash cam, cross-checked with police databases, witness statements, wiretaps and surveillance. No prior connection between the group and the victim has emerged, and the motive is still to be established. The investigation, coordinated by the Ravenna prosecutor's office, is not concluded. The municipality has said it intends to join any trial as a civil party.
- Homicide in bologna, IT
· Alleged · 3 sources
A 42-year-old man died on the morning of 19 July 2026 in via Svevo, in the Pilastro district of Bologna, during a police intervention prompted by reports of a man causing a disturbance in a garage. Officers used pepper spray and then restrained him face down on the ground with his wrists and ankles bound. Video footage circulated afterwards records him calling out for help before losing consciousness; he died during or immediately after the restraint. A Bologna prosecutor has opened an investigation into the death as negligent homicide and police body-camera footage has been made available to it, while the local health authority has begun an internal inquiry. The two police officers who carried out the restraint have been formally registered as suspects, and the position of four Red Cross volunteers who intervened after the immobilisation is also being assessed. An autopsy was carried out on 24 July: a CT scan showed the lungs full of blood and the examination recorded compression of the body without significant bone fractures, but the medical examiner described the examination as very complex and said further test results must be awaited. Whether the compression occurred before death or during attempted resuscitation has not been established, and no cause of death has been formally certified. The victim's relatives have publicly alleged that he was beaten and killed, and a parliamentary inquiry has been announced.
- Homicide in eboli, IT
· Alleged · 3 sources
The victim, a 53-year-old male sports journalist, was found dead in an agricultural field in the Cioffi district of Eboli, in the province of Salerno, on the morning of 19 July 2026, close to the Strada Statale 7 bis. Firefighters called to a blaze at the site extinguished the fire and discovered the body, which had been burned; carabinieri, forensic officers and the duty prosecutor attended before dawn. An autopsy was carried out on 22 July, and investigators have not yet established whether the body was set alight before or after death. In the early hours of 25 July, carabinieri from Salerno, supported by the ROS technical investigations unit and the Puglia hunter squadron, located a man they consider responsible for the killing hiding in an abandoned farmhouse and placed him under a fermo, a pre-charge precautionary detention order. The investigation is coordinated by the Salerno prosecutor's office, which is reported to be treating a private motive as the main line of inquiry.
- Attempted homicide in roma, IT
· Alleged · 3 sources
A 53-year-old man was shot and wounded at around midnight on 17 July 2026 in via di Valle Aurelia, a district in the west of Rome. He was hit in the leg and was taken by ambulance crews to the emergency department of the Gemelli teaching hospital. He survived the shooting. Carabinieri from the Rome Madonna del Riposo station and the operational unit of the Rome San Pietro company began investigating at the scene, and forensic examinations were carried out by the Rome investigative unit. Witness statements, mobile phone cell-site tracking and analysis of area CCTV, which allowed a car used by the suspects to be located, led investigators to two Roman residents. On 1 August 2026 a 26-year-old man and a 36-year-old woman, both with previous convictions, were detained on suspicion of attempted homicide in connection with the shooting. They were taken to the Regina Coeli and Rebibbia Femminile prisons on the order of the judicial authority, and the detentions were subsequently validated by the court. No trial stage has been reached.
- Homicide in palermo, IT
· Alleged · 2 sources
The victim, a 69-year-old man, was fatally stabbed on Via Papa Giovanni XXIII in the Bonagia neighborhood of Palermo during a dispute between neighbors. Emergency responders attempted resuscitation without success. The suspect fled and remains at large; police have launched a manhunt.
- Homicide in modena, IT
· Alleged · 2 sources
The victim, a man in his early-to-mid 30s, was fatally stabbed and found in the entrance hall of a condominium on Via Tignale del Garda in Modena; he did not live in the building. Residents heard a quarrel around 5am and discovered the body, alerting authorities. Carabinieri are questioning a woman who lives in the condominium; no arrest or charges have been made. A drug-related motive has not been ruled out but is unconfirmed.
- Homicide in crema, IT
· Alleged · 1 source
A 19-year-old man died after being stabbed in Crema. Authorities stopped three young suspects, who were traced between the provinces of Cremona and Milan.
- Homicide in bologna, IT
· Alleged · 1 source
An 86-year-old woman was fatally shot in a home on via Shakespeare in Bologna. Reporting described the case as an apparent homicide-suicide in which the suspect, her 81-year-old husband, then shot himself.
- Homicide in torino, IT
· Alleged · 3 sources
A 36-year-old woman of Romanian origin was killed on the night of 9–10 July 2026 in her apartment in the Barriera di Milano district of Turin. She had moved there with her young son after the end of her relationship with the suspect. Her body was found in the apartment on the evening of 20 July, wrapped in a sheet and hidden inside the storage compartment of the bed, after a friend who had not heard from her for about ten days entered the flat using the landlord's keys and called police on noticing a strong smell. The autopsy attributed death to severe cranial polytrauma and violent compression of the mouth and neck, consistent with mechanical asphyxiation, and placed it roughly ten days before the body was found. On 5 August 2026 police arrested the victim's former partner, a 45-year-old Romanian man who was already under investigation. He is held to be strongly implicated in aggravated domestic abuse, femicide and concealment of a corpse. According to witnesses, the suspect had continued to monitor the victim after the relationship ended.
- Homicide in santadi, IT
· Alleged · 4 sources
A 35-year-old man was shot in the chest and killed at dawn in a rural area on the outskirts of Santadi (Sulcis, Sardinia), about 60 km from Cagliari. Investigators are working on the theory that the killing followed a quarrel between the victim and the suspect that escalated. A suspect was taken to the carabinieri barracks for questioning; forensic specialists from Cagliari were sent to examine the scene.
- Homicide in loreto, IT
· Alleged · 2 sources
The victim, a 33-year-old factory worker, was stabbed multiple times at her home in Loreto (Ancona) by her husband during a violent argument, around 10 p.m. The couple's young son was at his maternal grandmother's house and unharmed. The suspect turned himself in at the carabinieri barracks in nearby Porto Recanati, covered in blood, and confessed to the killing. No prior violence or social-services involvement had been recorded for the family.
- Homicide in corsico, IT
· Alleged · 4 sources
A 40-year-old man was killed on 8 July 2026 in his flat on the eighth floor of a residential block in Corsico, a comune on the south-western edge of Milan. According to investigators he was strangled with a scarf, which broke his neck, and stabbed six times. A 39-year-old man was detained on suspicion of the killing and is held at San Vittore prison in Milan. Investigators say his genetic profile was found on two knives at the scene and in blood traces in the bathroom, and that a palm print left in blood on a glass door of the flat matched his. The two men had had an intimate relationship, and the killing is alleged to have taken place during a dispute. The suspect had been detained two days earlier after threatening volunteers of a street-aid charity with a knife, and is said to have breached a court-ordered residence ban to reach the victim's home. He has not yet been formally charged.
- Homicide in sanremo, IT
· Alleged · 3 sources
La vittima è stata trovata morta nella sua casa a Sanremo. Il figlio è stato sottoposto a fermo per omicidio al termine di un lungo interrogatorio. Le indagini sono coordinate dalla procura di Imperia.
- Homicide in torino, IT
· Alleged · 2 sources
Il corpo dell'uomo è stato trovato in casa a Torino, in avanzato stato di decomposizione, con una ferita al cranio. I carabinieri indagano per omicidio. La vittima potrebbe essere stata colpita con un oggetto contundente.
- Homicide in palermo, IT
· Alleged · 2 sources
Omicidio a Palermo: un uomo accoltellato mortalmente in un appartamento di via Sampolo
- Homicide in napoli, IT
· Alleged · 1 source
Sparatoria notturna a Napoli, vittima colpita da un colpo d'arma da fuoco in zona Porta Capuana
- Attempted homicide in milano, IT
· Alleged · 1 source
Aggressione mattutina in zona San Siro a Milano: la vittima, 55 anni, colpita da circa venti fendenti fuori da un bar, ricoverata in condizioni critiche; aggressore arrestato per tentato omicidio.
- Homicide in vieste, IT
· Alleged · 2 sources
Omicidio a Vieste (Foggia): la vittima colpita a fucilate in località Defensola, indagini affidate alla DDA di Bari
- Attempted homicide in padova, IT
· Alleged · 1 source
L'aggressione all'alba a Padova, la vittima ricoverata d'urgenza
- Homicide in civitanova marche, IT
· Alleged · 3 sources
La sospettata 34enne è in carcere, indagata per l'omicidio di un uomo di 62 anni. La procura non ritiene credibile la tesi della legittima difesa: sul corpo sono stati riscontrati segni di una coltellata al braccio e due lesioni al cranio. Attesa per l'autopsia.
- Homicide in bari, IT
· Charged · 4 sources
AGI - Omicidio a Bari. Un uomo di 38 anni, the victim, è stato ucciso questa mattina in via De Marinis, nel quartiere Carbonara del capoluogo pugliese. Arrestato l'autore dell'omicidio a Bari L’uomo era in bici quando è stato raggiunto da almeno un colpo d’arma da fuoco che non gli ha lasciato scampo. L'autore dell’omicidio è stato arrestato dopo poco, mentre stava raggiungendo la Questu
- Homicide in reggio emilia, IT
· Charged · 7 sources
Ferita in modo grave la sorella dell'imprenditore. L'omicida si era dato alla fuga. Motivo dell'aggressione, aver negato delle pizze gratis. Fonti successive riferiscono l'arresto del presunto autore.
- Homicide in roma, IT
· Alleged · 10 sources
Orrore nella capitale, sterminata una famiglia probabilmente con una mannaia. Ferito il figlio 20enne. Una fonte successiva riferisce che il presunto autore era ancora in fuga e che le autopsie erano previste in settimana.
- Homicide in nocera inferiore, IT
· Alleged · 1 source
Diverse contraddizioni nel racconto del presunto femminicida, che però ribadisce la sua innocenza. A insospettire i carabinieri alcuni segni riscontrati sul corpo della donna
- Homicide in ceriana, IT
· Charged · 3 sources
AGI - Una donna di circa cinquant'anni è stata trovata morta nella sua casa di Ceriana, nell'Imperiese. Il compagno si è costituito, raccontando ai carabinieri di averla soffocata con un cuscino. Una fonte successiva riferisce un trasferimento in ospedale dopo una minaccia di suicidio in carcere.
- Homicide in firenze, IT
· Alleged · 1 source
Lucca, convalidato l’arresto dopo che ha sparato con il fucile a moglie e figlio. L’uomo si giustifica: “Ero depresso e in ansia”. La pm gli contesta la premeditazione. Il ragazzo era stato ricoverato in psichiatria per tre giorno dopo il litigio di inizio giugno
- Homicide in lomazzo, IT
· Charged · 2 sources
Un uomo di 72 anni è morto nel rogo del suo appartamento a Lomazzo nella notte tra il 24 e il 25 giugno. Un vicino è stato arrestato per omicidio volontario; secondo le fonti, l'ipotesi investigativa riguarda una ritorsione dopo una denuncia per furto.
- Homicide in napoli, IT
· Alleged · 1 source
Il 21enne ucciso. La vittima, 'ogni volta muore una speranza per il futuro'
- Homicide in milano, IT
· Charged · 2 sources
Un interprete di 65 anni è stato ucciso a Milano dopo un incontro a pagamento. Un diciannovenne è stato fermato e ha confessato il pestaggio mortale.
- Homicide in san stino di livenza, IT
· Alleged · 2 sources
The victim, a 52-year-old secondary-school teacher, was stabbed to death at her home in San Stino di Livenza (Venezia) on 11 June 2026. The suspect is her 17-year-old nephew. Her funeral on 3 July 2026 drew a large crowd, and the mayor declared a day of mourning for the town.
- Attempted homicide in milano, IT
· Charged · 1 source
The victim, a 30-year-old Egyptian man, was struck repeatedly in the face and chest with a machete on the night of June 4 in Milan, in an attack judicial authorities have charged as attempted homicide. He underwent multiple surgeries for injuries initially assessed as healable within 40 days. Two 17-year-old suspects, both with disguised faces during the attack, were arrested and placed under precautionary measures in a juvenile community facility. The motive remains under investigation.
- Homicide in foggia, IT
· Charged · 1 source
A 46-year-old woman was killed on 23 April 2026 in her home in Foggia, in Apulia. Her husband, a 48-year-old security guard, is in custody accused of femicide. The victim had been active in campaigning against gender-based violence. Three months after her death her children wrote an open letter to the Italian prime minister saying they felt abandoned by the state, having applied for the statutory compensation available to the families of femicide victims and received no reply.
- Homicide in covo, IT
· Alleged · 2 sources
Two men, aged 47 and 48, were shot dead on 17 April 2026 outside a Sikh cultural centre in Covo, in the province of Bergamo. A third man was wounded in the same shooting and survived. According to reporting on the investigation, a man arrived at the site by car, approached a group of his compatriots and opened fire. Investigators attribute the ambush to a conflict within the local Sikh community over control and management of the cultural centre. A 29-year-old suspect fled Italy after the shooting and, having hidden in France, was traced to England. He was arrested in Birmingham on 23 July 2026 and is being held in custody in the United Kingdom pending extradition to Italy.
- Homicide in bordighera, IT
· Charged · 6 sources
The victim, a 2-year-old girl, died in Bordighera from acute cerebral hemorrhage caused by a blow to the head sustained within 48 hours of her death. An autopsy also found two additional internal hemorrhages and signs of chronic malnutrition and neglect dating back roughly a year; doctors said she could have survived had an ambulance been called in time. The victim's mother and her partner are in custody, charged with aggravated maltreatment resulting in death; both maintain their innocence. She was found lifeless on 9 February 2026 at her mother's home in Montenero, a hillside district of Bordighera. The child's funeral was held on 14 August 2026 at the church of the Immacolata in Bordighera, attended by hundreds of people and led by the bishop of the Sanremo-Ventimiglia diocese. The victim's mother, initially authorised to attend, was barred the previous day when the investigating judge revoked the permission on grounds of public order and security. The child's biological father, detained in an unrelated case, attended under escort by the prison police.
- Homicide in milano, IT
· Charged · 1 source
A 28-year-old man was shot in the head and killed on 26 January 2026 in the wooded area of Rogoredo, in Milan, a location known for drug dealing. Prosecutors allege the fatal shot was fired from a distance of about 30 metres. A 41-year-old former officer of the Mecenate police precinct is accused of the killing, which prosecutors say took place in the course of an anti-drug-trafficking operation. On 31 July 2026 the Milan prosecutor's office requested that he be sent for immediate trial, skipping the preliminary hearing stage. The accusation carries the aggravating factors of premeditation and abuse of public office, and cites threats the accused is alleged to have made against the victim before the shooting. A separate strand of the investigation concerns alleged extortion and unlawful arrests.
- Homicide in gemona del friuli, IT
· Charged · 2 sources
Un uomo è stato ucciso e il corpo è stato fatto a pezzi a Gemona del Friuli. La fonte del 26 giugno 2026 riferisce di sviluppi giudiziari sulla custodia cautelare della madre, indicata come imputata confessa.
- Homicide in san giovanni valdarno, IT
· Acquitted · 1 source
The victim, a 93-year-old woman with Alzheimer's disease, was suffocated with a scarf by her daughter, who had been acting as her caregiver, at the family home in San Giovanni Valdarno (Arezzo) on the night of 8-9 March 2025. The suspect contacted police herself immediately afterward and confessed. Prosecutors sought a 12-year sentence, but the Court of Assizes of Arezzo acquitted her, finding that severe stress from the burden of caregiving had left her incapable of understanding or controlling her actions at the time.
- Homicide in castignano, IT
· Convicted · 3 sources
The victim, a 45-year-old woman, was killed by her husband at their home in Castignano (Ascoli Piceno), in the hamlet of Ripaberarda, on 19 December 2024. A court found the killing was the intended outcome of over a year of mistreatment, torture, and injuries inflicted with pointed and bladed instruments. On 9 July 2026, the Corte d'Assise di Macerata convicted the husband and sentenced him to life imprisonment plus three months of daytime isolation.