Overview

• Emanuele De Maria, a Bollate prison inmate on work-release, fatally stabbed coworker Chamila Wijesuriya, injured another, and later took his own life by jumping from Milan's Duomo.
• The Milan Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation into potential oversights in granting De Maria’s work-release permit and monitoring his activities during the program.
• Judicial authorities defended the decision to grant work-release, citing De Maria’s exemplary prison conduct and compliance with legal standards.
• Surveillance gaps, including missing CCTV footage and phone tracking data, have complicated efforts to reconstruct De Maria’s movements before the incidents.
• Chamila Wijesuriya’s husband publicly criticized the justice system, questioning the decision to allow a convicted murderer access to public spaces and employment.