She had been followed by the Mental Health Center for years, but recently he had «suspended taking the drugs that were prescribed to me.” Giulia Lavatura, 41 years old from Ravenna that Monday morning she jumped from the ninth floor of the building where she lives, with her six-year-old daughter Wendy and her dog, she was interviewed by the prosecutor, the investigators and the doctors. She reconstructed the entire tragedy by answering her questions.
After getting up, washing and dressing in silence so as not to be heard by her husband, who was at home, at 7.15, with her daughter and dog in her arms, she went out of the window on the top floor of the condominium and she walked on the scaffolding then jumped into the void. The little girl and the dog died, but she suffered a spinal injury judged to be healable in a few weeks.
Giulia Lavatura reports having only hesitated «when my daughter tried to stop me. I picked her up while she was still sleeping and then she woke up. I wanted to commit suicide and I wanted her not to be left without me. I had premeditated everything days before.”
He claimed to not having given drugs to Wendy to stun her, but the Prosecutor's Office ordered a blood test on the little girl to ensure that the woman's statement was truthful. However, an autopsy will not be carried out, because the reason for the little girl's death is clear: after a cadaveric inspection, her body will be returned and permission for the funeral will be granted.
Soon there will behearing to validate the arrest for aggravated murder and killing of an animal: Giulia Lavatura's lawyer will raise the psychiatric issue linked to the motive of the case. «It is wrong», explained his lawyer, Massimo Ricci Maccarini, «to allow a person to independently choose not to take fundamental medicines like those».
Before the tragedy, the woman had published a long post on Facebook, in which she accused her father and the mental health center that treated her. It had been to the woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder. “My daughter had delusions of persecution,” explained the father. “She was angry with me because I insisted that she take care of herself.”
Source: Vanity Fair
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