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Torremaggiore (Fg) - Italy

The funeral of Jessica Malaj, in church also the mother of the sixteen-year-old killed by her father

Friends, family and citizens at the funeral of the sixteen-year-old girl killed by her father while trying to defend her mother

15/05/2023

The coffin of Jessica Malaj, the 16-year-old girl killed at home by her father Taulant Malaj on the night between 6 and 7 May, has arrived in the church of Gesù Divino Lavoratore in Torremaggiore (Foggia) where the funeral will soon be celebrated. To welcome the white coffin Jessica's mother, Tefta, injured but survived the blows of her husband who also killed a neighbor. Tefta, who is hospitalized in the Polyclinic of Foggia and went out only for a few hours, had arrived at the church shortly before, pushed into a wheelchair and surrounded by family members.