Don Roberto they found him covered in blood, with the body battered by stab wounds The cruelest, the fatal one, hit him in the neck. A life spent helping the last ones (and migrants) broken at the age of 51 by a Tunisian without a residence permit, preceding them and – above all – several deportation orders never carried out.
They found him at 7 in the morning in Piazza San Rocco, a How. Some passersby noticed the body in a clearing where immigrants usually meet. Help was called instantly, but there was nothing to be done. Valtellinese, known in the city precisely for his activity towards the poorest, Fr Roberto Malgesini was born in Morbegno in 1969. Ordained priest in 1998, he had been vicar first in Gravedona and then in Lipomo, since 2008 he was collaborator of the pastoral community of Beato Scalabrini . His attention was focused precisely on situations of “marginalization”, including the care of foreigners. Tonight in the cathedral of the city a rosary will be held for the lifeless parish priest “and for those who have killed him”. Bishop Oscar Cantoni, who rushed to the scene as soon as he heard the news, expressed “profound pain and disorientation”. The mayor of Como, with whom there had been tensions in the past due to the activity of the parish priest, proclaimed the city mourning.
It is not yet clear the reason that would have pushed the irregular Tunisian to attack and kill him, and then leave him lifeless and bleeding. The investigations are conducted by the Mobile Police Squad. The man would have constituted himself and would have declared to the carabinieri that he had killed the parish priest. It is a Tunisian, irregular in Italy with precedents for theft and robbery. On him hangs an expulsion measure dated April 8 and ‘suspended’, explain sources from the police headquarters to the Agi, due to the blocking of flights due to coronavirus. This reconstruction, however, conflicts with those declared by Roberto Bernasconi, director of the Como caritas, according to whom “he had mental problems and deportation measures not carried out since 2015”. The sources of the Como police headquarters, however, deny the hypothesis that he had mental problems. “It is neither from the medical records concerning him nor from the checks with the social services,” they say. Meanwhile, the suspect has been taken to hospital (he allegedly injured a tendon during the stabbing) and the interrogation is underway. Arrived in Italy in 1993, he married an Italian three years later. According to the first reconstructions, Don Roberto started his classic homeless tour early in the morning to distribute breakfast. The parish priest would have met the Tunisian and for reasons still not clear the attack would have taken place. Near the rectory of San Rocco, he writes the day, Don Roberto’s car was found with the necessary items for alms. A blood-stained knife was also found nearby, possibly the murder weapon.
“In Como this morning while he was entering his parish a 51-year-old priest was stabbed to death by one of the many immigrants illegal immigrants who are in this country – attacks Matteo Salvini – they should be sent home, on the first boat or on the first boat. Instead of thanking God and the Italians for the opportunities that “the parish priest” gave him, he was stabbed to thank. “For the leader of the Carroccio,” the problem is not the color of the skin, one may have been born here or on the other side of the world, the problem is to respect the rules and to show respect. Because if you come to my house and start making a mess, I will send you back to your house. I already have the problems of my country, after the virus I have even more and I can’t allow me to waste money, time, energy to keep up with drug dealers, bivouacs, snatchers or professional time wasters “.
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