Catania, girl dies in Garibaldi: three years ago her boyfriend set her on fire

A 24-year-old girl from Messina, Ylenia Bonavera, died last night at the Garibaldi hospital, in the center of the city of Catania. The Catania flight squad is investigating the causes of death. The girl had a stab wound at the level of a clavicle, but the investigators exclude that this is the cause of death. Later, the doctors found, based on the analyzes carried out, that the young woman had drunk alcohol and used drugs.

In 2017, the woman’s ex-boyfriend, Alessio Mantineo, had tried to kill her by spraying her with gasoline and causing burns to 13 percent of her body. The young woman had subsequently retracted, saying that it was not Mantineo who set her on fire, but during the trial the man’s responsibilities emerged, thanks to the police investigation. Mantineo was sentenced in 2018 to 12 years for attempted murder, a sentence that was reduced in January of last year to 10 years.

Her last “live” on Facebook, 22 hours ago, shows her in the car while listening and singing a Neapolitan love song. Ylenia Bonavera was a beautiful 24-year-old girl, with tattoos on her arms, who loved to take selfies, listened to neomelodic music and posted photos of dogs, dishes and invocations to Jesus. On the profile with the name “Sweet Star” he had written “officially girlfriend”. «By my side I want sincere, positive people like me … true friendship does not exist. It is a lost world and it is ugly because I have to trust a person but I also have to trust him and today I have the certainty that it is impossible, “he wrote in his last post. The girl after the attack of the ex who had tried to set her on fire had gone to live with her parents in Messina and then had been a guest in a family home, also in the province of Messina. Later she would go to live alone and travel to Catania.