It was the father of the 8-year-old boy, who was found dead in his home on Tuesday afternoon in Calimera, in the province of Lecce, who raised the alarm. Shortly before, a diver found the body of his 35-year-old mother, NM, in the sea at Torre dell’Orso. The little boy’s body bore signs of possible traumatic death. Police are investigating the matter. The two live separately. The hypothesis is murder-suicide.
“The last few hours have been a shock to our community,” Mayor Gianluca Tommasi wrote yesterday on Facebook. “The tragedy that befell us, the discovery of the body of one of our citizens in the sea and, not long after, the discovery of his son in their home, is an extraordinary suffering that is difficult to understand.”
