Arrest for domestic violence in Verbania
Date of the event:
In Verbania, in the late afternoon of 11 November 2026, the State Police respond to a home where a seventy-year-old woman of Ukrainian origin calls for help while being attacked by her forty-year-old daughter, an Italian citizen. The episode is said to have started with a reproach made by the mother to the daughter over her situation, after she had lost her job and moved back into her mother's home despite the older woman's illness.[1][2]
The police response
Officers arriving at the scene find the seventy-year-old with visible signs of beating on her body, while the daughter is still in the flat in an altered state. The victim is taken to hospital, where she is found to need several days to recover.[1][2]
Further inquiries by officers reveal a troubled relationship between mother and daughter, which had worsened in the weeks before the assault, since the older woman had taken her daughter back in without a stable place to live. Given the seriousness of the episodes, the mother's intention to press charges and the hospital report, the police flying squad (squadra volante) arrests the forty-year-old for aggravated assault, the aggravation being that she lived with the victim.[2]
The arrest is upheld
On the morning of 12 November 2026 the preliminary investigations judge (gip) upholds the arrest and orders a precautionary measure banning her from approaching the family home, together with a requirement to report twice a week to the police headquarters (Questura).[1][2]
Sources
- Picchia la madre malata, arrestata una donna a Verbania — ANSA Piemonte, 13 November 2026
- Picchia la mamma, arrestata — NovaraToday, 13 November 2026