“It was me”: a man murdered his mother with a hammer, dismembered her and threw her remains all over Naples

A terrible femicide shocked the Italian city of Naples: a 47-year-old man murdered his mother with a hammer, the dismembered then he put his remains in bags which he distributed throughout the city. The crime happened at the end of August and this Tuesday they found the woman’s headsaid the police.

According to the newspaper The imprint, Eduardo Chiarolanza confessed to the murder of his mother Eleonora close up, 85, one day after the discovery of the first remains, September 9. “I was”he told investigators during questioning.

Local media claimed that the man have psychiatric problems and that the crime took place on August 29 after an argument in the house they shared. First Clarity He hit his mother with a hammer, then strangled her with the television cable and eventually dismembered her with an electric saw, the newspaper said. Corriere della Sera.

It was not the woman’s other children (she had three) but the principal of a local school who announced the disappearance of the old woman to the police, after not seeing her for several days.

Shortly after the police found human remains in a large blue bag in a field between Pianura and the municipality of Marano. Other remains of the body have been identified in the vicinity, probably carried by some animals. According to investigators, the bag carried at least a week ago.

Police deployed a major operation with sniffer dogs and drones to find the remains. A few days later, the macabre finds follow. This Tuesday, the police found several pieces, including Eleonore’s head reported the news agency Ansa.

Increase in violence against women during the pandemic

According to the Italian statistical institute Istat, in 2019, there were 111 feminicides in Italy. As in many countries, violence against women grew up in my forties for the coronavirus pandemic. In the first half of 2020 “the murders of women represented 45% of all homicides, against 35% in the first half of 2019, and reached 50% during confinement,” the newspaper said. The newspaper.

In addition, in 2020, calls attention number for gender violence 1522 (the equivalent of 144 in Argentina) increased by 79.5% compared to 2019, both by phone and by chat (+ 71%). The call boom began at the end of March 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 emergency, with peaks in April (+ 176.9% compared to the same month of 2019) and in May (+182.2 compared to May 2019) .

According to the Sky channel, at least 65 women have been murdered in Italy so far this year, the vast majority by their partners or ex-partners.