Overview
- Carabinieri who responded to a house fire in Cinisello Balsamo early Thursday found a 73-year-old man burned and arrested his 47-year-old son, identified as Raffaele Arena, at the scene.
- Authorities say Arena allegedly struck his father with a blunt instrument, doused the body with flammable liquid, and set it alight, according to law-enforcement reports.
- Members of the Sezione Radiomobile di Sesto San Giovanni tried to control the flames with extinguishers before the Vigili del Fuoco arrived and secured the scene.
- Arena was convicted in a 2017 case that left an elderly man dead and was sent to a REMS facility for five years after courts found him incapable of understanding and will.
- The Procura di Monza is coordinating a homicide-level investigation and forensic reconstruction, and upcoming psychiatric evaluations will be central to how prosecutors proceed and how Arena is treated clinically.