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Bolzano. He arrived in Rome on Friday evening and was immediately questioned via videoconference by the judge for the preliminary investigation Ivan Perathoner and made use of the right not to respond. At the end of the validation hearing, which required the help of an English interpreter because the man said he did not speak German, the investigating judge validated the precautionary custody in prison. Rebibbia prisonwhich he will leave in these hours to be transferred to that of Trento.
We are talking about Benedict Chika Ibolekwuthe thirty-seven-year-old Nigerian suspected of having stabbed his ex-mother-in-law, the sixty-two-year-old physiotherapist, in the late evening of February 13 Waltraud Kranebitter, hitting her in the throat in the meter compartment of the building in Via Cavour 8, where the woman had gone down to restore the electricity. All trace of Benedict, on whom the investigators’ suspicions had immediately focused, had been lost for days. He had no longer even contacted the wife from whom he is separating, the daughter of Waltraud Kranebitter who, for some time, had put an end to their relationship and had returned to live with her two children with her parents in Bolzano.
Benedict seemed to have vanished. Until Monday 4 March, when the German police, executing the European arrest warrant issued by the judge for preliminary investigations of Bolzano, arrested the man, reached in an apartment of Monaco. Bavarian law enforcement also seized the man’s cell phones, tablets, laptops and a set of keys. At the end of complex investigations, the Carabinieri would have reached him through the telephone cells which revealed the presence of the thirty-seven year old in Bolzano that evening, right in the area of Via Cavour. Not only. The car of the man, who lives in Bavaria, was immortalized in the city by some security cameras that evening. Not in front of the house where the mother-in-law lives, but nearby. Too much, in short, to think about coincidences. In these hours, the thirty-seven year old will leave the Roman prison to be transferred not to the one in Bolzano, which is too crowded, but to the one in Trento. Assisted by a lawyer from South Tyrol assigned to him ex officio, Benedict Chika Ibolekwu then confirmed him as a trusted lawyer. In the days following the arrest, the man sent several letters addressed to his ex-wife, with whom relations had deteriorated for some time, already months before the attack, so much so that contact had been eliminated. Missives in which he would deny any involvement in the attack. But Waltraud Kranebitter’s daughter and family, still deeply shaken by what happened, decided not to read them. Indeed, they handed them over to the Bolzano prosecutor’s office in the event that they could prove useful to the investigations. The writings will be merged into the prosecution file for attempted murder.
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