“Let’s kill ourselves together.” “It’s not love”: the video which recounts the feminicide of Floriana Floris in Asti

“It's not love. I don't want to die. I want to live because I have a daughter.” Floriana Floris died on June 6, 2023 at the hands of the man she wanted to leave, Paolo Riccone. He is on trial for aggravated intentional homicide. Forty minutes before being stabbed 45 times, she activated the video function on her cell phone: “I'm doing it because if anything happens, they'll know what you did to me,” she told him. her while they are in their house in Scapaccino in the Asti region. She has lived in Piedmont since 2021 in the house of the defendant's father. He is 50 years old and a researcher in Alexandria. According to the Turin edition of Repubblica, in the video, he said to her: “I love you”. And she replies: “It’s not love. If you treat me like this, I want to leave. Tomorrow I'm going to the police to report you. And then I'm going to see the social workers: let them find me another house before I go back to work.”

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The cell phone records everything. In the last video, she attacks him and says, “Let's kill each other.” Floriana thinks of her daughter and says she doesn't want to die. He hit her. Before the phone rings, she shouts, “I'm locking myself in the bathroom.” » Then darkness. A psychiatric report ruled that Riccone is capable of understanding and willing. Even if he is addicted to psychotropic drugs. “The accused – said the psychiatrist Raffaele Pugliese – faced with the concrete possibility of losing possession of the woman, whom he considered his property, told her that he could not live without her and offered to suicide as a couple. “I don’t want to die with you, I want to live for my daughter,” Floriana replies. “My God, help me, help me my God,” the last cry. Her body was found in the living room three days later. He's pumped full of anti-anxiety meds and drank bleach. She tells the police that she committed suicide.

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