Giada Zanola murder, benzodiazepines in her blood seem to confirm suspicions about her partner: “He drugs me”

Toxicological tests confirm what Giada Zanola, a 33-year-old shop assistant who was thrown from the overpass on the A4 motorway in Vigonza (Padua) on the night of May 29, feared. Even though the data is still partial, Traces of benzodiazepines were found in his blood (as well as on his clothes). In that of her forty-year-old boyfriend Andrea Favero, in prison – on charges of aggravated homicide – since the day after the fall from the overpass), however, no.

The night before she died, Giada Zanola had written to a friend, around 8:30 p.m., “I feel weak, I see double,” but when the woman asks her, “Why?”, she no longer responds. Even in April he had reported having vomited and lost consciousness “after drinking a cocktail that Andrea made me.” He had told his friend his story fear, that of having been raped, while unconsciousby her partner, who wanted a second child. The autopsy, on the other hand, did not exclude that, even if she was alive at the time of the fall from the overpass, Giulia Zanola could have been unconscious.

She was afraid of him: she told her friends about fights and violence, and he feared he might become a victim of revenge porn. She had also cancelled the wedding, which was scheduled for September.

On the night of May 29, around 3:30, drivers traveling on the A4 highway, in Vigonza, reported to the Highway Police the presence of a body on the roadway. The cars desperately tried to avoid it, but a truck hit it. At the same time, the cameras of a house in via Prati, at the foot of the overpass from which Giada Zanola fell, They recovered Andrea Favero’s car, which he turned to turn around and go home.

At 7:30 in the morning the man also attempted a diversion: he tried to call his partner on the phone and, obviously receiving no answer, he wrote her a message to reproach her for not having said goodbye to him and their child. But from the investigations of the Mobile Squad it appears that the last signal from the woman’s cell phone dates back to 4 in the morning on Wednesday 29th. It was not found on the highway, and the suspicion is that Favero made it disappear because Giada had photographed the evidence of the abuse (the bruises on her neck and arms) after the last argumentthe one that happened two days before the murder. But Giada had already sent those shots to her new partner and her best friend.

But, if the day after the discovery of the body, Andrea Favero denied any responsibility, he then confessed everything to the flying squad agents: “It was me, I grabbed her by the knees and threw her down.” The confession, however, while remaining a clear indication of guilt, has no legal validity and cannot be used in court, because it was made without the presence of the prosecutor, in front of whom, a few hours later, the man again denied everything. “I was on the overpass with her that night,” this is his version, “but I don’t know what happened.”.