Murder Orta Nova, Filomena stabbed to death in front of her mother to defend her daughter

Killed before the eyes of her elderly mother and most likely to defend her daughter. Filomena Bruno, 53, was stabbed last night in Orta Nova, in the province of Foggia. It is the 72nd victim of femicide in Italy since the beginning of the year. The former son-in-law would have hit her, Cristoforo Aghilar, A 36-year-old man who had escaped from house arrest and ex-boyfriend of his daughter, from whose thought he was obsessed, fled immediately after the crime. Only a week before the murder, the man had threatened with a gun the victim in the bar owned by the brother of the latter. For this reason in the last few days she had gone to sleep at home with her elderly mother and had been subjected to supervisory measures by the carabinieri with the obligation to communicate to the military every move.

Murder Orta Nova, found the murder weapon

Then, yesterday the tragic epilogue: Filomena was reached on the street in Viale Diaz as she entered her mother's backyard and was attacked with a series of swipes against which it has not even managed to react. Meanwhile, it is hunting to the alleged killer in the entire territory of Foggia also with the help of the Apulian Hunters. The man has not yet left electronic traces because he has no cell phones or credit cards and this complicates the searches, while they also expect the results of the analysis on the body of the 53 year old to try to reconstruct precisely what happened yesterday afternoon. However, the knife with which Filomena was killed was found.

The mayor of Orta Nova: "Earthquake in our community"

A story that left the whole community in shock, already deeply shaken by the murder-suicide of the prison agent Ciro Curcelli, who only a few days ago always in Orta Nova had shot and killed his wife and two daughters aged 12 and 18 before turning the weapon against himself. "Once again a earthquake within our community – said Mayor Mimmo Lasorsa after the tragedy -. Once again a country's cry of pain rises above everything else. Once again the people of Orta Nova are united in solidarity in the face of a tragedy. There are no words, again, for what happened. A thought to Filomena and the Bruno family. So that they can have justice from our institutions ".