"If I leave him, he'll kill me." And so it was. He broke into the house, opening the door with a copy of the keys made a few weeks ago, while she was on the cell phone with her ex-boyfriend, with whom she had become friends and to whom she had confided her fears .
“Help, help, help,” are her last words before ending the conversation. Then a desperate text. “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 patrol officers arrived, she was injured. She answered the intercom, pretending to be making a home delivery and indicating the floor. They heard her screaming, and when they managed to open the door, she was on the floor, breathing "increasingly labored." Pamela Genini, a 29-year-old model and entrepreneur born in Bergamo, was killed last night with at least 24 stab wounds around 9:30 PM in her apartment in the Gorla neighborhood of Milan .
That afternoon , she had "permanently" ended her relationship with Gianluca Soncin, 23 years her senior , originally from Biella, previously arrested for a luxury car scam and with a criminal record for assault. The relationship began in March 2024, and he quickly demonstrated his violent and possessive nature: punches and kicks, clothes torn off, a gun pointed at her stomach, constant abuse, and death threats against her and her parents . He had even forced her to quit her job and move in with him in Cervia, and had already tried to hurt her with a broken bottle and even stab her. He did so last night, before later stabbing her in the head.
He first stabbed Pamela with a switchblade and then inflicted cuts on himself, resulting in a night in Niguarda Hospital, a detention, and an interrogation during which he exercised his right to remain silent. This morning he was released and transferred to a prison cell in San Vittore, charged with murder, aggravated by premeditation, frivolous motives, a romantic relationship, cruelty, and stalking .
The person who arrested him was prosecutor Alessia Menegazzo, who is coordinating the investigation with deputy prosecutor Letizia Mannella, and who interviewed several witnesses immediately after the femicide. Not just some neighbors, who heard a female voice calling for help and shouting "I won't do it again," "I love you," "Stop it, I have a family," or who saw the young woman screaming as she knelt on the balcony while Soncin slapped her.
But also those who knew her well and gathered her confidences. First and foremost , Francesco, her former boyfriend, with whom Pamela had remained on good terms . His story allowed us to reconstruct the relationship between the victim and her killer and the 29-year-old's final moments, which revealed "a horrifying picture," according to the arrest warrant, of a crescendo of "harassment and violence." The young woman , "even though she wanted to distance herself and end the relationship," the witness explained, "was afraid to break it off abruptly because she was afraid" that Soncin "would harm her and her parents by telling her 'if you leave me, I'll kill you and your mother.'" For this reason, she was hesitant: "I can't leave him or he'll kill me," she told her friend.
In her last period, "when she went out, she never posted on social media about where she was going for fear of being found and followed" by the 52-year-old, whom she left "for good" just yesterday. Shortly before her death, she confided in him one last time: she told him "that she felt lonely but was nevertheless happy to have found the courage" to end their relationship .
(Unioneonline)