The murder of South African model Reeva Steenkamp, girlfriend of Oscar Pistorius, committed this morning by the same athletics champion, famous for having competed with the able-bodied at the London 2012 Olympics despite prostheses in both legs, is increasingly yellow in his home of Pretoria, where he lived with the girl.
The initial hypothesis, that of the surprise of Valentine's Day ended in tragedy because Pistorius would have mistaken his partner for a thief, begins to creak. For a number of reasons: first of all because the local police formally arrested the athlete for "murder", despite the fact that self-defense is interpreted in a particularly broad way in South Africa, given the continuing danger situation of the "rich", who live in villas sumptuous a few steps away from the absolute misery of the underprivileged classes. In South Africa you can shoot if you feel attacked and you're right even if you later discover that the other was not armed: last year there were almost 17 crimes of this kind, so if that were the case, it would have been normal administration.
The investigators also declared that they "are amazed that the news speaks of thieves" and above all they opposed the release on bail, another routine procedure in the South African and Anglo-Saxon judicial system in general. Another disturbing circumstance: Pistorius used a 9mm and fired several times, which leaves the investigators (and not only them) perplexed, and finally, as if that weren't enough to fuel the suspicions, there would be several witnesses in the neighborhood who heard "screams and noises of quarrels" yesterday.
Last but not least, it should also be kept in mind that the unfortunate 2009th century athlete who – sportingly speaking – was the symbol of millions of disabled people around the world, had already been arrested in 19 for an alleged assault on a XNUMX-year-old girl, and even then the The accident happened at his house. Even the ex Samantha Taylor, left a year ago just for Reeva, had reacted very badly and threatened to tell "how Pistorius treats women", only to then retract. But at this point her words sound like a disturbing and sibylline alarm bell on the private life of a champion, who could have further complicated his difficult existence with his own hands.
