Martina Patti, the woman who killed her five-year-old daughter Elena, out of jealousy of her ex, Alessandro Del Pozzo, at the time of her transfer for her arrest.
At this moment, the whole of Italy is shaken by news that has caused astonishment: Martina Pattya 20-year-old woman was arrested and charged with the murder of her five-year-old daughter in Italy shortly after reporting her kidnapping in a Sicilian town in the Catania area.
Elena Del Pozzo has been defined the innocent victim. His body was finally found “by instruction from his mother” in the middle of an abandoned field 200 meters from his home. The girl was stabbed and put in a garbage bag.
The Procurator of Catania, Carmelo Zuccarohe indicated that the woman confessed to the crime after a long interrogation in which the investigators unmasked the killer for his “many inconsistencies” when it was her turn to testify.
“I don’t remember what was going through my head as I stabbed my daughter,” said the killer, according to sources in the Italian justice system. He killed her with a kitchen knife.. The autopsy revealed deep cuts on the neck, upper back and behind one ear.
Martina Patti, at that moment went to pick up her five-year-old daughter Elena from kindergarten. She was the last image of the two of them before the murder.
“I don’t remember if I took any objects from home. It was 2:30 pm and we headed towards the camp that I indicated to the carabinieri. It was the first time I took the girl to that camp … I have in mind the image of the knifebut I don’t remember where I got it from and I don’t remember hurting the girl, I just remember crying a lot, “said Patti.
The young mother, who lived in the municipality of Mascalucia, reported to a police station that Elena he had been kidnapped while he was in the car with her. According to her account, she said that she was in the small town of Piano di Tremestieri Etneo, where three hooded gunmen They opened the vehicle door and took your daughter away.
The woman told police in tears: “I went to look for my daughter in kindergarten. We were just leaving when they blocked our car. They took the girl, she was screaming but they put her in another car and ran away. She later claimed that the kidnappers were demanding a ransom that she was unable to pay.
The woman assured that the kidnapping was related to her former partner, Elena’s father, a man with a long criminal history of robbery and drug trafficking.
Little Elena with her father Alessandro Del Pozzo, who has a criminal record for drug trafficking.
But from his tones, his nervous movements and his “body language”, investigators quickly became suspicious of her. For them the statements of him were rare and the alleged intervention of organized crime called them a lot. They believed that the woman had committed this “hideous crime” out of “jealousy” of her ex and her new partner, who apparently He had a good relationship with the girl.
“One of the possible reasons that prompted Martina Patti to act in this way could be jealousy. Not only from her ex-boyfriend’s new partner, but also from the affection her daughter felt for this new woman, “she said. Piercarmine Sica, head of the Carabinieri of Catania.
The letter from Elena Del Pozzo’s father
After hearing Patti’s lawyer talk on television about the hypothesis that she is undergoing a psychiatric visit, Elena’s father decided to break the silence with a letter: “Martina is not crazy, hers was a cruel crime and premeditated ”, assures Alessandro del Pozzo.
“I’ve heard of it madness and morbid jealousybut I haven’t heard of it malice and sadism”Said the man who wanted to speak to do“ what’s right for his daughter ”.
Alessandro Del Pozzo, at the moment he learned about the appearance of the body of his daughter Elena.
“The moments of madness are followed by moments of lucidity”, he argued, emphasizing that the woman “did not even regret killing the girl!” “He put Elena in the garbage bags, buried her, cleaned and cleaned her, invented a kidnapping as an alibi and hit his car to simulate an attack: 24 hours of lies! A murder in which an alibi is created and the body is hidden cannot be a fit of madness!
Del Pozzo said this because in her statement the woman said she did not remember anything. “I don’t remember what went through my head when I stabbed my daughter (…) I don’t remember burying the girl, but it sure was mePatti said in his statement.
“He killed her! she got it from me… Not because I didn’t want him to have an affair with my partner, but because I wanted to turn her against me … He spoke badly of me every day and Elena told me so. She couldn’t, because Elena and I are one and she hated her for it. She tried to speak ill of me until the day she realized she couldn’t and she studied how to kill her, “continued her father in her letter.
Five-year-old Elena and her father, Alessandro Del Pozzo.
“Elena had her whole life ahead of her. I am destroyed, I feel an insurmountable emptiness inside me. I always promised my daughter that I would keep her safe, that I would give my life for her. He couldn’t think he had to protect her from her mother … Martina is a monster, she did not deserve a daughter like Elena, special and unique in everything “, concluded the man.
defense attorney, Gabriele Celestihe told Rai: “It was a dramatic interrogation of a destroyed and judged woman who did something that not even she thought she could do”. Enzo Magra, the mayor of Mascalucia, said: “I am shocked. Upon hearing the news, I burst into tears. It’s a drama we never wanted to hear ”.
Source: Clarin
