Gianluca Soncin, the 52-year-old accused of the murder of his girlfriend Pamela Genini, availed himself of the right to remain silent and was questioned this morning by Milan's investigating judge Tommaso Perna.

Soncin, assisted by lawyer Simona Luceri, has chosen to remain silent, as he had done immediately after his arrest in hospital, where he had been taken after staging a suicide attempt.

The man—with a prominent bandage on his neck due to the superficial cuts he sustained immediately after the crime—is now in solitary confinement in San Vittore prison. His lawyer, whose arrest was dismissed after Soncin appointed a lawyer of his own choosing, explained, "He's not lucid." "I found him in a state of shock," she added, "and he still hasn't fully grasped what happened."

Investigators seized a dozen knives, both box cutters and switchblades, similar to the one used to kill Pamela Genini, and four or five blank pistols from her home in Cervia. During the searches, they also found keys that may be similar to those to the 29-year-old's house, which the 52-year-old had copied for the break-in two days ago, but it remains to be seen whether they are actually another copy.

Soncin, 52, stabbed his girlfriend Pamela Genini, 29, to death two nights ago with 24 stab wounds . He entered her apartment in the Gorla neighborhood of Milan and made a copy of the key. After a relationship that lasted more than a year and a half and was marked by violence, harassment, threats, and deprivation, she left him that afternoon .

Soncin, originally from Biella, had previously been arrested for a luxury car scam and had a criminal record for assault. The relationship began in March 2024, and he quickly demonstrated his violent and possessive nature: punches and kicks, clothes ripped off, a gun pointed at her stomach, constant abuse, and death threats against her and her parents .

She was on the phone with her ex-boyfriend, a boy her age with whom she had maintained a great friendship, when Soncin entered the house. "Help, help, help," were her last words before ending the conversation. Then a desperate text message: "Teso, I'm scared, he's got a duplicate key, he's broken in, I don't know what to do, call the police." When the officers arrived, Pamela was still breathing, but it was already too late. She was lost for a few minutes.

(Unioneonline)

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