Woman fell from a bridge in Padua: her husband is in prison. Zaia: “Yet another victim of feminicide in Veneto”
Breakthrough in the investigation into the death of Giada Zanola after the admissions of her husband, Andrea Favero, to the prosecutor. The victim leaves behind a 3-year-old child
PADUA – Breakthrough in the investigation into the case of the woman who fell from an overpass inPaduaat dawn yesterday, Wednesday 29 May. It would not have been a suicide, but the victim, Giada Zanola, 34 years old, was thrown from the bridge. Arrested for voluntary homicide is her husband, Andra Favero, 39 years old, who was taken to prison following some of his admissions to the prosecutor and at the end of the investigations by the Padua and Venice Polstrada officers and by the police squad. mobile of the Padua Police Headquarters. or volunteer.
Giada, who leaves behind a 3-year-old child, was originally from Lombardy but lived in Vigonza, in the province of Padua. And in just a few months the Venetian city has recorded other cases of femicides, which have hit the headlines, from that of Giulia Cecchettin last November, at the hands of her ex-boyfriend, to the case of >Sara Buratin, killed by her husband last February.
The President of the Region Luca Zaia also intervenes on the death of Giada Zanola: “The umpteenth victim of feminicide in Veneto has the face of Giada Zanola, 34 years old, originally from Brescia, mother of a 3-year-old child, married to Andrea Favero, six years older than her”, reports the governor from his social profile. “Now the man is accused of voluntary homicide and has been sent to prison – he continues – The couple, who had been in crisis for some time, had been living in Vigonza since 2023. The murder would have occurred at the height of an argument that the two they would have had while they were on the bridge over the motorway, in Vigonza, not far from their home. Here her partner made her fall. Some cars managed to avoid the body, then the woman was fatally hit by a truck.” . Finally, Zaia invites everyone to pray for Giada and her baby. “It’s a huge tragedy – he concludes – made even more painful by the thought of this little one, who at just 3 years old is left alone”.
“The mere thought immobilizes me from the anger and sense of helplessness I feel at this moment. The news that I have just read and which is circulating quickly on all websites is, unfortunately, another feminicide. A word that no one would like to hear anymore after the case of Giulia Cecchettin, but which instead is struggling to disappear despite the good intentions, the choral phrases of ‘never again’, the major awareness-raising actions against gender violence that are being promoted, in particular in Veneto”, says Roberto Toigo,secretary of the Veneto Uil.
The death at the hands of his companion is “a dramatic and shocking turning point”. And it is “It’s disarming to feel so useless in the face of these unjust deaths involving women”, says Toigo. “Uil Veneto continues its silent but constant fight against feminicides also thanks to its stalking and mobbing offices and will never stop promoting the culture of life and respect for women and gender equality”.
by Mattia Cecchini and Cristina Rossi
(photo taken from social media)