PESARO He did not want to answer the prosecutor’s questions. But he did ask how his children were and where they were. Ezio Di Levrano arrived at the Courthouse in Pesaro around 11, in a blacked-out prison police van, driven directly into the building to protect him from the eyes of onlookers. Shortly after, the hearing began to validate the arrest of the 54-year-old driver, in prison on charges of aggravated voluntary homicide, for which he risks life imprisonment, against his 38-year-old wife Ana Cristina Duarte Correiaof Brazilian origin with whom he had three children. His wife was stabbed to death in the house at number 4 of Via Papa Celestino V in the village of Saltara, in the municipality of Colli al Metauro.
INSIGHTS
The silence
Di Levrano, defended by the public defender Gaia Vergari, has availed himself of the right to remain silent. The lawyer, on the sidelines of the hearing, explained that she went to prison yesterday morning, speaking to him for about twenty minutes. “I found him very distressed, saddened by his children, he was asking about them. He is certainly not in a state of well-being, the charge is that of having killed his wife”. There is a passage that the lawyer underlines. “She would have returned home because I think she wanted to see her children – explains Vergari – The relationship between him and his wife was not good, there was tension and jealousy and the fact that she had left home certainly did not simplify the situation. An action by the husband, in any case unjustifiable. He only asked me about the three children, their conditions are his main concern”. Today the minors, after a first night spent at their paternal grandparents’ house, were welcomed into a protected community. Yesterday morning the hearing before the investigating judge ended with the validation of Di Levrano’s arrest and the judge ordered the precautionary measure of prison. Therefore he remains in a cell in Villa Fastiggi.
The investigations
On the investigation front, it should be noted that the woman’s relatives in Brazil have been contacted for the information necessary also for the autopsy which is currently scheduled for Tuesday 17 September. Among them is Ana Cristina’s 80-year-old mother who thus learned of her daughter’s tragic end. Furthermore, the prosecutor Irene Lilliu, head of the investigation, has produced some documents, namely the deposition of the three minor children aged 14, 13 and 6, heard last Saturday by the Carabinieri in the presence of a psychologist in a protected hearing and the questioning of other witnesses informed on the facts, including the neighbors who raised the alarm on the night of the murder by calling the military while they heard the screams of the three children asking for help. During the validation hearing, the suspect expressed his desire to appoint a lawyer of his choice: Salvatore Asole.
The new lawyer
The lawyer from the Pesaro court, reached by telephone, stressed: «I reserve the right to see the documents, understand the charge and hear Di Levrano, his version of how the events happened that night and in the previous days. This latest femicide is an immense tragedy, now the next step will be to hear him and understand». The criminal lawyer is defending Michael Alessandrini in the case of the murder of Pierpaolo Panzieri and has defended Igli Meta and Mema Mario in the murder of Ismaele Lulli from Sant’Angelo in Vado. At the moment the charge for Di Levrano is for voluntary homicide aggravated by family ties, by having committed the crime in front of minor children and by mistreatment in the family. Di Levrano is a bus driver, he has a criminal record.