On Sunday Alberto Scagni waited for his sister in her house in Genoa. When Alice, 34 years old and a mother of 14 months, went downstairs to walk the dog, she approached her and asked her, as on other occasions, for money. A fight broke out, at the end of which the 42-year-old stabbed Alice with at least 17 blows. Then he fled, with his clothes stained with blood and the knife in his hand: he was stopped not far from the crime scene, with his clothes still stained with blood and taken first to the police station, then to the Marassi prison. Quinto’s femicide shocked the city. The man was arrested on charges of aggravated premeditated voluntary homicide. Alberto Scagni had a deep grudge against his sister and the family in general because of financial aid that he claimed were denied him. The sort of confession he gave to the agents, without a lawyer, will have to be confirmed.
The man probably also had a form of persecution mania: in fact he was convinced that someone was spying on him, there are numerous posts on Facebook in which he refers to this idea, and he had even had his apartment in Sampierdarena reclaimed because he suspected someone had there. placed some bugs. Just a few days ago he had published a photo that now appears as a dark omen: behind him a baseball bat and a knife, it is not clear if it is the one used to kill his sister. In the recent past Alberto Scagni had tried to set fire to the door of his grandmother’s house, who lives in the same building, after her refusal to make a new request for money. The man had bad relations with the whole neighborhood: he stuck toothpicks in the intercom to make it ring, made noises in the middle of the night, accused the condominiums of things they had never done. There had been reports to the police.
In a post on Facebook published by Alberto, a photo of him at his sister’s wedding is shown: “This (in which you can admire a woman who is about to marry and a mix between a narcos, Daredevil and a drunkard) is the only photo about the marriage of my sister, who for now has deigned to send me – he wrote, suggesting an uneventful relationship with Alice -. Perhaps because in the others I am even more ugly? It would not surprise me. To be uglier. reason. And years have passed, by the way. ” Scagni, reading his posts on social media, had been harboring a grudge for weeks. “Maybe I am about to be misjudged by those who I have never misjudged” he wrote on Twitter on May 1st, a few hours before the murder, and then again “Difficult things in life: to answer yes or no. Do I sign it? , come on. I just did a hard thing! “. In recent days, he had posted a photograph with a baseball bat and a knife, possibly the murder weapon.
The hearing for the validation of the arrest will be held this week, the man could give his version of the facts and explain why he fatally assaulted his sister at 21 on Sunday evening.
The place of the murder (photo GenovaToday)
