Murder-suicide in Rivara, the paternal grandfather: “My son was not well, I never knew he had a gun”

My son was in treatment for a couple of years, I never knew he had a gun, so Domenico Baima Poma, father of the man who killed his 11-year-old son at night in Rivara in the Canavese. Andrea (the grandson ed) had lived the separation badly, he said that he would come to live with us, that he would never leave Rivara, this was his world. He loved Legos and motorcycle rides with his father. He was happy to be back in school, but he barely made it to a week in sixth grade. Claudio lived for his son, he would never leave him alone.

“None of us expected such an extreme gesture.” Roberto Andriollo, mayor of Rivalta, has always known the family of Claudio Baima Poma, the 47-year-old metallurgist from Rivara Canavese who took his own life last night by first killing his 11-year-old son. “None of us understood,” explains the mayor. Nobody suspected anything. We often saw him go by on his Harley. He talked about riding with his biker friends. I am very good friends with the parents but none of them had ever spoken of their suffering ”. Separated for a year and a half, he had never accepted the end of his relationship with the ex. To complicate everything, the depression that he suffered from and from which he had never been able to free himself. “He dragged little Andrea with him,” says the mayor. They were always together. They rode their bikes, they walked, they did their homework. They were inseparable. By not going to school today, she had to stay with him. The mother had to work. Andrea was so happy. Just a few days ago I had started sixth grade, I had been assisting her for a week. She had a whole life ahead of her and it was really absurd to think that it was her father who put an end to her existence.