Overview

• The bodies of Luca Monaldi, 54, and Luca Gondi, 50, were discovered on June 2 in their Bolognina apartment with fatal stab wounds.
• Investigators arrested 48-year-old Gennaro Maffia at Barcelona airport after tracing his departure from Bologna to an early-morning flight.
• Authorities believe disputes over the couple’s pending apartment sale, which would have required Maffia to vacate, may have led to the violence.
• Multiple knives seized at the crime scene are undergoing forensic testing to establish which was used in the killings.
• Bologna Questore Antonio Sbordone described the incident as a “particularly efferate murder” and ruled out a murder-suicide scenario.