MilanoFemicide in Bruzzano: Luciana Ronchi killed by her ex-partner. The horror was captured on camera.

The footage shows the seventeen seconds it took the man to reach her, grab her, and stab her fourteen times. Shocked bystanders were unable to intervene.

Milano she is still shocked by the The brutal murder of Luciana Ronchi, the 56-year-old woman stabbed to death by her ex-partner Luigi Morcaldi. in the morning of TuesdayIn the neighborhood Bruzzano. A A surveillance camera captured the assault moment by moment, lasting just seventeen seconds but enough to end a life.

The images, taken from above, show Morcaldi on a scooter. After a U-turn, the man notices his ex-partner coming home. Luciana recognizes him and tries to walk away, but he catches up to her, grabs her by the shoulders, and pushes her between two parked cars. There he hits her repeatedly, fourteen times, with a violence that leaves witnesses petrified. Some passersby witness the scene, but the speed and brutality of the attack paralyze them. The woman manages to take a few steps before collapsing to the ground.

Immediately afterward, Morcaldi fled. He was tracked down and arrested that afternoon, a few kilometers away. In front of the magistrates he confesses: “Yes, it was me. But I didn't mean to kill her. I was thinking two stab wounds, not fourteen.”He told the prosecutors that he had waited for Luciana "to hurt her, not to kill her," claiming he had acted impulsively.

According to initial reconstructions, the man's resentment had been brewing for a long time. After their relationship ended in 2022, Morcaldi reportedly experienced difficult months, sleeping in her car and working occasionally as a carer. In a letter sent to his son, entitled “The Poisoned Cake”, he had vented his anger against his ex-partner and her family.

Two workers who witnessed the scene they told investigators about the moment of the attack: “I saw a man pulling the hair of a woman who was screaming and trying to break free”, one of the witnesses explained. “She was losing a lot of blood from her neck and face,” added the other, who tried to help her.

Luciana was rushed to Niguarda hospital, where is died in the evening after hours of agonyThe news of his death shocked the Bruzzano neighborhood, where a silent procession was held on Thursday evening to remember her. In the front row, the mayor Giuseppe Sala, Which has reiterated the need for a "strengthened Red Code 2.0", with the obligation of Electronic bracelet for those reported for domestic violence or stalking.

The opening banner read: “With Luciana in my heart”. Hundreds of people, including citizens and representatives of institutions, participated in the torchlight procession to say no to gender-based violence.