Her name was Anna Sviridenko and she was a radiology resident at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Unimore). The 40-year-old woman was murdered last night in Modena. Her husband, Andrea Paltrinieri, a 48-year-old engineer, took her body to the Carabinieri station in a van and was arrested for the crime. Andrea Paltrinieri kills his wife and goes to the police station: “It was me, the body is in the van.” The two had been fighting over custody of their children. The University “Our community is shocked by the news of the brutal murder of one of our radiology residents,” wrote Carlo Adolfo Porro, rector of Unimore. “Femicide is a cancer that we can no longer tolerate, a disgrace that stains our humanity and there are no half measures to condemn it: it is a heinous, inhuman and unacceptable act. It is time for our society to rise up decisively against this barbarism.” The University, he stressed, will support the victim's family and is ready to become “a civil party in the process yet to begin”. Tomorrow all the University flags will fly at half-mast. Andrea Paltrinieri, who is the man who killed his wife in Modena and went to the police station with the body in the trunk? The husband's confession “I killed her, the body is outside in the van.” With these words, spoken last night in front of a Carabiniere on duty, 48-year-old engineer Andrea Paltrinieri confessed to the femicide of his wife Anna Sviridenko, a 40-year-old of Russian origin who works as a radiology assistant at Unimore, the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. After strangling her in their home on the outskirts of Modena's historic centre, Paltrinieri went straight to the Carabinieri provincial headquarters in via Pico della Mirandola with the woman's body in his vehicle. At the police station he was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter in the act and then taken to Sant'Anna prison, where he awaited confirmation of the arrest by the investigating judge. Another femicide, the umpteenth. Custody The murder, it was found, occurred over custody of the couple's two and three year old children, a dispute that reached a decisive moment just yesterday. The victim, Anna Sviridenko, had asked the judicial authority in Innsbruck (in Austria), where she lived, to regulate primary custody of the minor children and visitation rights for the father. The procedure was concluded on May 17 last year; it was established that the two children would live primarily with their mother, with visitation rights for the father. Last January, Paltrinieri filed a request for judicial separation with the civil court in Modena, challenging the jurisdiction of the Austrian judicial authority. The Modena court decided not to take urgent interim measures because there was already a decision by a foreign community judge (i.e. a decision recognized in our state). Then last February, the woman filed a request for sole custody of the two children with the court in Innsbruck. And just yesterday the judges granted her requests. The moment of the murder The murder is said to have taken place when the 40-year-old was in Modena to take the children to Austria, where she had achieved significant professional milestones in the medical field. Last night, after recording the man's confession, the Carabinieri opened the engineer's vehicle in a way that did not contaminate the evidence. In the trunk was the woman's curled-up body. Prosecutor Paola Campilongo arrived at the scene, while the coroner's post-mortem examination revealed that the victim's head was covered with a black plastic bag tied around her neck with a plastic-coated electrical cable. After the bag was removed, it was found that the woman's neck was tied with a belt. “Another case of a man who could not accept the end of the relationship and decided to murder. A terrible and serious act, the umpteenth this year in Italy,” commented the mayor Massimo Mezzetti, who was elected yesterday. The Aou of Modena speaks of a “tragedy that has shaken all the staff, not only that of the Policlinico, where Anna did her specialist training, but the entire company.”
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