A Saint Severus the pain of the death of Celeste Palmieriyet another victim of feminicideis still palpable. The woman was killed by her husband Mario Furio while she was leaving a Eurospin supermarket, she was hit with several gunshots before the man, hunted by the police, decided to turn the weapon against himself. The first citizen of San Severo is the spokesperson for the community’s pain, Lidya Colangelowho added the words of the victim’s daughter to her complaint against the still little attention paid to women’s right to life.
The daughter forgives her father after the feminicide
From the funeral home, the daughter of Celeste Palmieri and Mario Furio has forgiven the father. The local newspaper reports it The immediate which reports the words of the mayor Lidya Colangelo.
The first citizen of San Severo said: “We are close to our children. I was struck by the words of forgiveness of the daughter who yesterday in the funeral home said that she forgave her father, saying that he too needed help“.
On Monday 21 October the funerals of the 56 year old. The function was celebrated by the bishop Giuseppe Mengoli at the church of the Immaculate Conception.
Among the hundreds of heads who shared in the family’s grief were messages from the woman’s relatives and closest contacts. The children displayed a heart-shaped balloon with the text: “Stay close to us, mom“.
The words of the institutions
Severe and saddened are the words of the mayor Lidya Colangelo, who in her speech questioned the efficiency of the security systems designed to combat feminicides and the continuous violence perpetrated against women.
“Sometimes women have difficulty reporting, but Celeste had done it. So what what didn’t work?“, asks Lidya Colangelo on the day of Celeste Palmieri’s funeral.
“Why the electronic bracelet didn’t it work? Our closeness must also be an attention to culture. Silence and violence must not remain within the home”, he concluded.
Celeste Palmieri killed by Mario Furio
At 10.30am on 18 October Celeste Palmieri was leaving the Eurospin in via Salvemini, in San Severo (Foggia), when she was killed. Inside the supermarket she met Mario Furio, her ex-husband, against whom she had already intervened with several complaints to ask for protection after years of mistreatment and threats.
The Prosecutor’s Office had requested prison for the man, 59 years old and a retired former penitentiary police officer, but the investigating judge had ordered the no approach con electronic bracelet. Yet on the morning of October 18th the woman’s device it hadn’t worked.
Furio’s device immediately sent the signal to the military, who contacted the woman to warn her of the imminent danger. According to a sister-in-law of Celeste Palmieri, interviewed by The Hyenasit was instead the victim who called the military to ask for their intervention. When the gunmen arrived, however, the feminicide had already been completed: Celeste Palmieri lay on the asphalt of the car park, dying, while Mario Furio attempted to escape. Blocked by the police cars, he took his own life by shooting himself with the same gun.
Investigators are investigating to understand what went wrong in the electronic bracelet system. According to rumors, Celeste Palmieri had repeatedly reported the malfunction of her device.
Photo source: ANSA
Source: notizie.virgilio.it
