Double homicide in the night in Arezzo, where a 50-year-old man stabbed his wife and mother-in-law to death .

The tragedy occurred in the apartment in via Benedetto Varchi where the couple lived with two children, a 16-year-old and a little girl .

The older of the two women died immediately, the other in the hospital where she had been taken in desperate conditions. The man, of North African origin, was arrested by the police .

At the time of the brutal attack, the two children were also in the house, it was the eldest who gave the alarm to the police . The prosecutor in charge of the investigation Marco Dioni also arrived on the spot, together with the head of the mobile team Sergio Leo.

The killer has already been interrogated: according to an initial reconstruction , the man would have grabbed a kitchen knife and lashed out at the two women, both from Arezzo . At the basis of the double murder a quarrel that degenerated into tragedy or a fit of madness.

After the attack, the 50-year-old fled down the stairs, then took refuge in an external square while his 16-year-old son called the police. The agents, who arrived on the spot, blocked the man who, in an evident state of confusion, immediately confessed.

According to the first rumors, it seems that the climate in the house had been tense for some time: the mother of the 50-year-old's wife would often come to sleep with her daughter to protect her .

(Unioneonline/L)

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