Convicted killer on prison release stabs colleague before jumping to his death off cathedral in front of horrified tourists

A convicted murderer connected situation merchandise stabbed a workfellow earlier jumping to his decease from a Milan cathedral successful beforehand of horrified tourists.

The Italian man, believed to beryllium Emanuele De Maria, 35, threw himself from the famed Duomo di Milano cathedral connected Sunday aft allegedly stabbing a colleague, section quality reports said.

News reports said helium climbed the terraces of the gathering earlier falling 'dozens of metres' from the Gothic cathedral into the quadrate below.

De Maria reportedly fell conscionable aft 2pm arsenic horrified onlookers watched successful shock.

According to Il Mattino and Ansa, De Maria leapt 'without hesitation' from the cathedral's northbound walkway and died instantly.

The country surrounding the Duomo, Milan's astir famed landmark, is usually teeming with radical but quality reports did not mention immoderate injuries among passersby.

Television images showed constabulary blocking disconnected the country surrounding 1 of the sides of the cathedral.

Authorities identified De Maria - who went connected tv past twelvemonth to picture his beingness - from an ID successful his pouch and his tattoos, according to respective reports, including Milan's Corriere della Sera daily.

Officers cordoned disconnected the country arsenic forensic teams examined the body.

Tourists were ushered distant and the cathedral terraces were instantly unopen down.

De Maria, primitively from Naples. had been serving a 14-year condemnation aft being convicted for the 2016 execution of a 23-year-old pistillate successful Castel Volturno, according to reports.

But for astir 2 years helium had been moving part-time astatine a four-star edifice adjacent Milan's cardinal bid presumption nether a work-release programme from Bollate prison.

His shocking decease came conscionable a time aft helium allegedly stabbed coworker Hani Fouad Abdelghaffar Nasr 5 times extracurricular the edifice astir 6.20am connected Saturday.

De Maria had been connected the tally for little than 48 hours aft the edifice stabbing, sparking a manhunt involving State Police and Carabinieri.

Meanwhile, officers were besides searching for different missing edifice worker, 50-year-old Chamila Wijesuriya, who hadn’t been seen since Friday.

She told her hubby she was heading to the gym - but was aboriginal captured connected CCTV entering the metro with De Maria.

Her telephone was recovered dumped successful a bin astatine a subway stop.

On Sunday, her assemblage was recovered successful a pond successful Parco Nord, located successful the bluish portion of the Italian city.

Investigators are moving to retrace his last movements and find the afloat timeline of events.