Pierina Murder, Dassilva: “Manuela? It was just safe sex”
"We did it in the garage or on the stairs of the building, every occasion was a good one". Questioned by the prosecutors, the only suspect for the murder of the 78-year-old woman from Rimini talks about the relationship with the victim's daughter-in-law. And the anonymous tip-off also appears
RIMINI – The photos portray them embracing, taken at sunset on the beach or during a trip to the river: they seem to be those of two people linked by a deep, perhaps overwhelming, affection. But in the interrogation with the prosecutors, Louis Dassilva, the only suspect in the murder of Pierina Paganelli, which occurred a year ago in Rimini, ‘dumped’ Manuela Bianchi, the victim’s daughter-in-law, calling their relationship “safe sex only”.
And it is on this difference that the investigators’ thesis is based, according to which the story between the 34-year-old Senegalese and the 53-year-old from Rimini was a passionate story, so strong that it pushed the man to inflict 29 stab wounds on Pierina who was opposing the clandestine relationship of his son’s wife. Or, was it a story of easy sex, as the suspect branded it, in the interrogation of June 26th? “For me Manuela was the opportunity to have sex for sure”: this is his version to “distance himself” from that bond that in fact represents the alleged motive for Pierina’s murder.
FROM COURTING TO SEXUAL INTERCOURSE “AT EVERY OCCASION”
But how did this clandestine relationship begin? “I heard that Manuela and Giuliano were having problems,” Manuela and Pierina’s neighbor told investigators. “When I heard this, I thought, ‘It’s true that I have a wife, but I’m a man and I take advantage of it.’ That’s why I started trying.” Dassilva then explains how he began courting Manuela: “I would send her good morning messages with photos taken from the internet or with catchy phrases.”
In short, everything was done just to get to have extramarital physical relations: this is how the suspect explained that from February 4, 2023, he began secretly dating Pierina’s daughter-in-law. “We met in the garage or on the stairways of the building – the interrogation report reports – In these places we also had sexual intercourse. We met before going to work. Or before I went running”. And again: “To keep her happy and continue having sex, I was available because every opportunity was good for me”.
FEARS AFTER THEMURDER: “I WAS AVAILABLE ONLY TO KEEP HER GOOD”
All this went on without problems until Pierina’s death: that’s when the end of the relationship began, when Manuela Bianchi was begging him to “run away together”. The Senegalese explains that he continued to be available only “to keep her happy” because from the beginning of the investigation, due to their relationship, fears had arisen in the man. “That’s why when she stopped me after February 14, 2024, I took her and we went into hiding (…)”. And again: “She was stalking me (…). I then thought that she wanted to be seen with me around at all costs to frame me”. During the interrogation, Dassilva casts shadows precisely on her lover and her brother. In fact, it reports an alleged chat between the suspect and Loris Bianchi on the day Paganelli’s body was found: “He told me that he alone could have killed Pierina calmly”.
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NEW REVELATIONS ON THE ACCIDENT OF PIERINA’S SON
The investigations into Pierina’s murder still seem far from being able to nail a culprit, indeed the story seems to be getting more and more tangled. The latest news: an anonymous report to the broadcast ‘Mattino 5’, from a person who said he knew an alleged superwitness of what happened to Giuliano Saponi, Pierina’s son, on the day of his bicycle accident, which occurred on May 7, 2023. Up to now, the fact has been considered only an accident and which then forced the man to a long hospital stay. Otherwise, if it were proven that someone intentionally provoked it, it is not excluded that the incident could be connected to Pierina’s death and wanted to inflict harm on her family. The new report would fall on this theory, according to which Pierina’s son was “attacked” by a white van with two men on board who intentionally cut him off to make him fall. In this regard, the Rimini mobile squad has started new investigations by tracking down two Jehovah’s Witnesses, possible authors of the phone call. At the moment the testimony must be verified: it is not excluded that it could also be an act of mythomaniacs.