The witness who accuses Aurora’s ex-boyfriend: “She tried to hold on to the railing, he hit her on the hands”

There is a witness who told what he saw on Friday morning in Piacenza, when the 13 year old Aurora she died when she fell from the eighth floor terrace of her building. Those would be his words, according to what they report Corriere della Sera And Republicana, to have contributed to the decision of arrest of the 15-year-old ex-boyfriend. “He threw her off the balcony,” he said, allowing the reconstruction of the dynamics of Aurora’s death.

The girl would have been pushed over the balcony railing. She would have desperately tried to hold on to the railing itself. He would hit her on the hands to make her fall. The 15-year-old is under investigation for voluntary homicide, was arrested on Monday afternoon and is in the Pratello prison in Bologna. He was able to meet his mother before the hearing to validate the detention in front of the juvenile court of Bologna. His lawyer said he answered all questions.

Aurora’s mother spoke to the Corriere della Sera. «I would never have imagined so much violence. I could never have believed he was such a monster. He killed a little girl. It was not a femicide, but an infanticide.” She told of the humiliations suffered by her daughter. «I knew they had a conflictual relationship. Aurora told me that he humiliated her, telling her that she wasn’t beautiful at all, that she was a stick, that everyone laughed at her behind her back. And I reassured her: “But no, you are the most beautiful being that has ever been created”. She told me that they often argued and he made her suffer, but I deluded myself that they were problems between two boyfriends who were almost the same age.”

The 15-year-old had also attacked Aurora at the bus stop. A girl who had photographed him had saved her. On Friday morning her daughter had arranged to meet her for lunch. At 10am the police rang. «I immediately said to myself: it was him, this time he succeeded. That relationship had now become hell. She was subjugated and terrified. He, however, on the one hand humiliated her, but on the other he was obsessed with her. She had tried to leave him twice already. I think she told him that morning that she didn’t want to hear any more about it. He didn’t accept it and threw her down.”

He had assumed the attitude of a stalker and had been reported to social services. «Many are showing solidarity and closeness to us. If on the one hand I feel embraced by the whole city and perhaps by the whole of Italy, I also ask for respect for our pain. Among so much solidarity there are, unfortunately, also some petty displays of profiteering. I want justice. I ask him to tell the whole truth and to serve his sentence to the full.”