“I stabbed him and I wanted to burn him.” Moment of terror in Ficarazzi, in the Palermo area, where a 24 year old manwho was already known to the police and suffered from mental disorders, was arrested by the police for assaulting his former colleague. What triggered the military intervention was a call to 112 from a young man who, in a state of delirium, told them that he was in an abandoned farmhouse, that he had stabbed his girlfriend and wanted to set it on fire. Arrive immediately at the location, police found the woman, in a state of shockwho told them that moments before he had been grabbed by the throat and threatened with a knife. Even in front of the police, the 24-year-old woman, who had started burning bushes inside the farmhouse, continued to threaten him with death.
The young man, who was found carrying two knives (a 12 centimeter folding knife and a 9 centimeter kitchen knife) and a lighter, was confronted and arrested. To Carabinieri investigators The victim described the fear she had experienced for months, abuse and hundreds of threatening messages which forced him to live in constant anxiety. The 24-year-old’s arrest was authorized and investigating judge Termini Imerese ordered his detention in prison.
