Overview
- A 56-year-old woman, identified as Milena Vitanov, was found fatally stabbed in a sixth-floor apartment on the outskirts of Piacenza after her husband phoned for help and said he had killed her.
- Carabinieri and firefighters forced entry through a window because the door was blocked, found a knife near the body, and emergency medics confirmed her death.
- Police identified the suspect as Hako Vitanov, a Macedonian national, and arrested him at the city cemetery near the grave of the couple’s deceased son after a brief search.
- Before the arrest, he had taken two of the couple’s four children to a nearby uncle, and medics treated him after an apparent attempt to cut his wrists.
- The apartment has been sealed for forensic work, and an autopsy is expected to clarify the wounds and help establish the sequence of events as detectives probe the motive.