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21 December 2020 05:41
Alessandro Pontin, 49, killed his children Francesca Pontin, 15, and Pietro Pontin, 13, in their apartment at 85 via Sant’Ambrogio in Trebaseleghe in the province of Padua, stabbing them in the throat. The man, originally from Noale, in the province of Venice, then cut his carotid and jugular with the same weapon, also dying instantly.
Alessandro Pontin: the father who stabbed his two sons to death in Trebaseleghe
Padovaoggi says that the double murder was discovered at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, December 20: the two children resided with their mother Roberta Calzarotto in San Giorgio delle Pertiche but spent a few days with him according to the agreements established in the divorce decree. The discovery of the bodies was made by the 49-year-old brother and the uncle of the two children. From the first investigative reconstructions it is clear that the boys understood what was happening, perhaps they saw their father already with the knife in his hand and would have guessed his intentions, so they would have tried to escape. But Pontin caught up with the two boys, pounced on them, and stabbed them both in the throat. The man, a carpenter, passionate about holistic philosophy and oriental massages, had a new partner.
Republic Write today that the man left a note: “I want to be cremated, scatter my ashes.” The newspaper writes that Pontin had disagreements over the food with his ex-wife, a nurse at Camposanpiero hospital. Roberto Pontin, Alessandro’s brother who lives in the house next to the house where the double murder took place and found the three bodies in a pool of blood. However, there are no traces of blood on the ticket, a circumstance that suggests that the murderer premeditated everything. The issue of alimony had led to a legal matter and, according to the media, the man was at risk of never seeing his children again.
Francesca and Pietro Pontin, murdered by their father in the province of Padua
According to the first findings of the carabinieri, the man had dinner with his children on Saturday night and waited for them to go to sleep to take two kitchen knives and beat them. Traces of blood on the ground suggest the boys tried to escape. “Several times my daughter had been talking to the police about this individual who did strange things. Unfortunately we came to this, the children died and I lost my two beloved grandchildren,” Francesca’s grandfather said. and Pietro Pontin. According to the uncle, the man had to pay 100 euros in child support for the two boys a month but the judge did not consider the appropriate amount. Corriere della Sera claims that Alessandro Pontin did not pay even those.
The man ran a health and wellness page on social media that he called “The reflected world.” On December 17 he had published an image of the Buddha and a message: “Everything comes in due time.” On his Facebook profile, on the other hand, there is a quote attributed to Carl Gustav Jung: “Life is yourself, if life is difficult to bear it is because it is very difficult to bear.”
