Trebaseleghe, the murder of Pietro and Francesca. The father did not pay alimony – Corriere.it

He caught them while they slept and hit them with a knife. The two boys fought back and tried to escape for an impossible salvation. The father joined them and killed them. The tragedy took place a Trebaseleghe in the Paduan area. The victims are Pietro and Francesca Pontin, aged 13 and 15. His father Alessandro Pontin, 49, after the double murder took his own life with the same knife by fatally stabbing himself in the carotid artery.

A premeditated crime

Behind the premeditated crime would be the aftermath of a difficult divorce. For his ex-wife, separated for five years, Alessandro Pontin refused to pay alimony. Before taking his life he left a note: I want to be cremated, scatter my ashes. The horror of this family tragedy devastated the small town in the Northeast on a quiet, semi-closed, pre-Christmas Saturday. A two-story house in via Sant’Ambrogio, while the mother of the two young victims lives in another house, not far away. It has not yet been established whether the double crime occurred on Saturday night, while the brothers had just fallen asleep at their father’s house, where they had gone for the weekend, or early yesterday morning. But from the first investigative reconstructions a detail emerges that makes the tragedy even more horrible: it seems that the boys understood what was happening, perhaps they saw the father already with the knife in his hand and they would have guessed his intentions, so they would have tried run away. But Pontin was relentless and caught up with the two boys, pounced on them, and stabbed them both in the throat.

Uncle discovered the bodies.

Everything was wrapped in silence. The villa is surrounded by other houses and the entrance is accessed through a small interior patio. But none of the neighbors would have heard screams or commotion. A brother of Alessandro discovered the tragedy yesterday morning. The man went to the house, opened the door and found the three bodies in front of him. In shock, he called in the carabinieri, and soon the story came out in all its brutality. The police from the investigation unit coordinated by the prosecutor Sergio Dini are investigating the case. The military spent many hours at the scene of the tragedy to find any useful trace. a story of infinite sadness, there are no words that allow us to comment on a tragedy like this, it bothers me, said the mayor of Trebaseleghe, Antonella Zoggia, who however did not know the three victims. The mother warned by the police of what happened became ill.

The father: carpenter passionate about holistic philosophy

Pontin, a carpenter, passionate about holistic philosophy and oriental massages, had a new partner. On his Facebook profile he left some conflicting posts. Life is yourself, if life is difficult to bear because it is very difficult to bear. The Carl Gustav Jung quote. There is also a message from Osho Raineesh, an Indian spiritual and mystical teacher: You cannot be anyone but yourself. Then relax. Existence needs you just as you are. Alessandro Pontin also ran a health and wellness page on social media that reflected his professional activity. He called it The Mirrored World. On December 17, he had posted a photo of the Buddha and a message that said now it smells like a dark omen: Everything comes in due time. Those who know him say that he was going through a positive period after the painful separation, but rumors also circulated about disputes precisely over the non-payment of alimony. But no one could imagine the fury that he wielded against his children.