Tragedy at the Civic Museum in Canneto sull'Oglio. Woman enters and stabs librarian to death.

A senseless and inexplicable tragedy occurred late Saturday afternoon, September 1, at the Museo Civico in Canneto sull’Oglio, in the province of Mantua. A fifty-eight-year-old woman entered the museum, armed with two butcher knives, and attacked, fatally wounding her, an employee, Paola Beretta (aged fifty-four), who had worked as a librarian at the complex in Piazza Gramsci for twenty years. The worker, who was well known and respected in the city, died shortly after arriving at the hospital. The murderer then pounced on a civil defense boy from Asola, who was injured but not in life-threatening danger. Afterwards, the woman came out of the museum and began stabbing anyone who came within range: under the blows ended up a lady in a wheelchair and her son who was accompanying her, who were also injured but not seriously.

In the end, the intervention of the commander of the municipal police of Asola, Marco Quatti, who happened to be in the square at the time of the attack, and of some passers-by, was successful in stopping the woman, who was arrested for murder and intentional injury. The cause of the insane act, which was anticipated last night by a similar attack, is not known at the moment: the woman arrested had in fact assaulted a person who was buying a pack of cigarettes at a vending machine at night. According to initial findings it would appear that the assailant had had mental problems and had been followed by the social services of Canneto sull’Oglio.

Meanwhile, on social media, great is the grief over the loss of Paola Beretta, who leaves behind her husband and three children. She was a great connoisseur of historical dolls (in fact, the Civic Museum of Canneto sull’Oglio has one of the most important collections of dolls in Italy), and those who knew her describe her as a very good, kind, generous, and helpful person, as well as very attached to the Canneto Museum.

Tragedy at the Civic Museum in Canneto sull'Oglio. Woman enters and stabs librarian to death.

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