The femicide of Daniela Zinnanti, the man was already under house arrest but the ankle monitor was not available.

Two ongoing trials for mistreatment of Daniela Zinnanti. Not only that, Santo Bonfiglio, the 67-year-old who confessed to killing Daniela, has a history of convictions for a string of offenses: illegal possession of firearms, theft in complicity, involuntary manslaughter, personal injury, and threats. Yet Bonfiglio was simply under house arrest with an electronic bracelet, a measure that the same investigating judge who issued it, Salvatore Pugliese, deemed to be the "minimum adequate".

However, the electronic bracelet was not available to law enforcement in Messina, so, a month after the order of February 14, Bonfiglio went to Daniela's house with a knife in hand and killed her. Yesterday morning, he was again interrogated by the judges of Messina in prison, and he confirmed the confession from Tuesday evening, when he recounted bringing the knife with him and not remembering where he threw it. Today, however, the task will be assigned to the forensic doctor, Alessio Asmundo, to proceed with the autopsy. Meanwhile, some dates stand out. On June 9, 2025, Bonfiglio had already been placed under house arrest. It lasted very little. The measure was relaxed just seven days later, to the milder measure of proximity, which was followed by the warning from the police chief, Annino Gargano. That's all. A warning for the violence perpetrated against Daniela Zinnanti, the 50-year-old woman he would later kill 9 months later.

What happened in May? She had left him, and he, not accepting it, went to her, on this occasion: he hit her with a punch in the head, causing her to fall to the ground, while attempting to take her cell phone to prevent her from calling for help, beating her with kicks and punches until she lost consciousness, continuing the violent act, dragging the woman by her arms into the bedroom and, after throwing water in her face in an attempt to revive her, continued to slap her even though the woman begged him to leave." Meanwhile, the proceedings for mistreatment against Daniela continued, and on March 25, the next hearing was scheduled. Then a series of ongoing fights with interventions from 118 and police marked their relationship. Until last February 5. What happened that day is recounted by Daniela in her complaint: "He suddenly went into the kitchen and came back to me with a knife that was not a kitchen knife and that I had never seen before, with a long blade".

And she continues: "He threatened me by putting that knife he held in his right hand near my left side, telling me he would kill me, he would gut me, you drunk piece of shit and crazy.' I begged him to stop: he started beating me." Repeated violence, which convinced the investigating judge: "It is evident that a measure of obligation (like the warning from the police chief in the records) would have no deterrent effect", writes Pugliese, who therefore defines the "house arrest with electronic bracelet" as the "minimum adequate" measure. A measure, however, that was not applied due to the state's shortcomings.