According to witnesses at the scene, Gianluca Soncin, aged 52, entered the apartment of his partner, 29, on Tuesday evening in Milan and stabbed her, before attempting suicide.
Unbearable drama Milan Tuesday evening. 29-year-old model and business manager, Pamela Genini, creator of a luxury swimwear brand and regular at fashion events, was killed in her apartment in Italy’s second most populous city with multiple stab wounds by her companion Gianluca Soncin, 52. According to local authorities, the young woman called her ex-partner early in the evening, worried about her boyfriend’s aggressive behavior. Alerted, his former companion immediately contacted the police.
Shortly before 10 p.m., the victim’s body was stabbed with 24 stab wounds by her fiancé on the terrace of their apartment, indicates The Republic. The tragedy did not escape the notice of the neighbors, who helplessly watched the scene from the building opposite. “We heard her scream, really loud. She was screaming: “Help, help!”», witnesses told our Italian colleagues.
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Gianluca Soncin attempted suicide immediately, by slashing his throat with the hunting knife he had just used, before being transported under a police escort to Niguarda Hospital. His vital prognosis is not in jeopardy. “I know she wanted to get rid of him. She wanted to leave him (…) but I couldn’t save her.” whispered the model’s ex-boyfriend to investigators, in comments reported by the Corriere della Sera . The couple had experienced some turmoil during their last vacation on the island of Elba, where the fifty-year-old allegedly threatened to kill his partner’s dog, according to the Italian press.
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Originally from Strozza, a small village in the Bergamo region, Pamela Genini lived between Milan, Monaco and Dubai. “Crazy, yes, but not so crazy that I didn’t know what she was doing. I just hope there will be justice. Goodbye, Pam, you will never grow old. I love you, my friend”wrote her friend Elisa Bortolotti on social networks, with whom she co-founded the bikini brand EP SheLux.
She had acquired a certain notoriety among the Transalpines, by participating in the Italian version of the reality TV show «The island of Adam and Eve (Adam recherche Ève)» at 19, where the contestants are completely naked on an island. Recently, she appeared on the red carpet of the Venice Film Festival, wearing a silver dress and accompanied by her inseparable chihuahua, Bianca, who never left her side on her various trips. The one who called herself “model and young entrepreneur” also worked in the real estate sector in Milan.
Gianluca Soncin was charged with intentional homicide, with the aggravating circumstances of premeditation and domestic violence. According to the first elements of the investigation, the man obtained a copy of the keys to the apartment Tuesday evening, before entering the accommodation to stab his partner. “I’m afraid, he made a copy of my keys”she sent to her ex-boyfriend moments before the arrival of Gianluca Soncin. The latter was violent since the beginning of the relationship which began about a year ago, and threatened to kill his mother if she left him.
