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“Help, there is a man who is beating A woman wiht a child in her arms ». It is indeed the evening of 20 maggio When two US tourists run on via del Mascherone, a central road in Rome. A few meters and arrive, agitated, a Farnese squarehome of the homonymous palace that houses the Embassy of France. On a corner of the historic widening the “Camponeschi” restaurant He is open, owner and vigilant first respond to the SOS of young people. It is indeed not even 10 pm, cries and quarrels like many who re -establish in the alleys of the capital.

Just that thatviolent man And Rexal Ford and 18 days later a Villa Pamphili will leave behind two bodies, Two victimsmother and daughter. Just the girl in the mother’s arms seen with him that evening. But already in the night of that first filingnobody will stop the future murderer.
«I saw these two American girls ask for help,they said there was a man,full of blood,violent With a woman »the story of the restaurant owner,who immediately calls 112.

Agents do not identify the woman

When the police arrive, the 46 -year -old is sitting on the steps of the number 63 in via del Mascherone: next to him there is his future victim, the woman he will abandon in a black bag in the park, also annihilating what remains of her, the daughter. It is he who speaks for her: “We are American touristsshe is my daughter, “he says in Italian to the agents, pointing out the girl in the arms to the mother who, however, has no documents.

The policemen, as far as they appear, do not go further: record the passport of man and, in the absence of complaints, do not verify more, not even theidentity of the womanthey just accept what Ford declared: he says he is his wife but the name will be without feedback. So much so that she is still unknown. Nor do the agents separate the couple in order to ascertain the facts without him to loom on the victim of his violence.

The doubts of a policeman

A policewoman only doubt and how, a photo of the wounded American, the restaurateur who then reports everything to “Who has seen it?” suspected described by the witnesses with a name and surname. “What was to be done was done as a citizen and as a civic sense – says the restaurateur now when he asks to remain anonymous -. Good deeds take stock and just should not be used for several purposes ».

I testimonial of thataggression They will not have been enough for the detention of man, but dozens of cameras immortalized the violent scene. Behind via del Mascherone, three meters from the steps on which Ford sat, there is the historic via Giulia, a road that houses the Consulate General of France, next to the Embassy building. H24 manned area by the police,dozens of electronic eyes focused on the alleys. That of Piazza Farnese is just one of the episodes in which The fury explodes of Ford, unpunished, let it go at least three times.Free to make his anger exploded,now accused of killing the girl and problably his mother,as soon as I autoptic feedback they will certify the causes of death.

the second report on Ford on the market

The second time happens to San Silverio markettwo steps from Villa Pamphili: it is indeed May 30th, again violent dispute, called to 112, this