Don Malgesini murdered in Como: the murderer wanted to behead him

The killer of Mr. Roberto Malgesini, the “priest of the last” murdered in Como last Tuesday, wanted to behead the priest. The 53-year-old Tunisian irregular prisoner for voluntary manslaughter with premeditation, allegedly infuriated the victim, when he was already on the ground after having suffered the first blows with a large kitchen knife. The great neck wound in particular, it would suggest an attempt to cut off his head, which was later not completed. The hypothesis, as revealed by the Agi agency, would be indicated in the car that validates the Tunisian’s arrest, Mahmoudi Ridha, signed by the judge after the 53-year-old man was questioned in prison.

The investigating judge will refer to the first conclusions ofautopsy carried out on the body of the priest by the anatomopathologist Giovanni Scola. The doctor, appointed by the prosecutor, allegedly found a large wound on the neck “which seems to suggest an attempted decapitation not completed due to the desire to resect the bony plane of the spine.” In the interrogation before the judgeRidha changed his version of the confession made a few hours after the murder of Don Roberto Malgesini and retracted, denying that he had killed him. On Tuesday, however, he admitted that he had shot the priest dead and in fact claimed responsibility for the attack, stating to the priest that he had always assisted him as one of the leaders of an elusive conspiracy get him out of the Italy of which the Tunisian feels himself a victim. The 53-year-old would have said he wanted hit the lawyers too who assisted him and did not have the expulsion order annulled. For the prosecution, therefore, Mahmoudi had planned the murder, so much so that his premeditation is questioned. After the validation of the arrest, in the last hours Ridha was transferred from the Como prison for fear of reprisals from the inmates, who knew and appreciated Don Roberto.