She feared her husband might kill their son. Raffaella Ragnoli, the 56-year-old housewife who killed her husband on Saturday evening, Romano Fagoni, 59, a worker, stabbing him six times in the throat with a large kitchen knife, Flavio Mastrototaro told the prosecutor that he was “afraid, so much. I really thought that unlike all the previous times he would go from words to deeds. And I feared for our son’s life. So I lashed out at him.”
She, her husband and the couple’s youngest son, 15, were having dinner on Saturday evening at their two-family home in Nuvolento, in the province of Brescia. And yet another quarrel broke out, “over trivial matters, the usual ones”, in a family atmosphere “that has now become unbearable, made up of constant quarrels and tensions”, as the woman explained.
The husband (who is also described by his eldest daughter, 25, who lives in Gardone Riviera, as a gruff, authoritarian, little tolerant and increasingly nervous type) allegedly accused his wife of not being able to educate her son: «You don’t understand nothing”. Then, again according to Raffaella Ragnoli’s reconstruction, the man would also have started pointing the knife at them, threatening to use it. «I take both of you and hurt you. He slit his throat». It was then that the woman snapped: “I thought it would hurt him.”
It was the boy who ran out of the house to call for help: «Help! Mom killed dad.” But, despite the timely intervention of the doctors, there was nothing more that could be done for the man, affected by the carotid artery.
The boy was heard by the investigators in a protected form, in the presence of a psychologist: he did not speak of his mother’s “defense”, but he confirmed the verbal threats of the authoritarian father and angry.
Raffaella did some domestic work in the village, to supplement, and is described as a very helpful woman: he also took care of Romano’s mother, who lives in the ground floor apartment of the two-family house and who is bedridden. In the village they speak of her as a reserved woman, but always ready to help, both in the parish and at school.
Source: Vanity Fair
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