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A convicted murderer who was allowed to work outside the prison threw himself out of Milan's famous Duomo Cathedral on Sunday and killed himself after he had supposedly stabbed a colleague.

The news agency from Ansa and other outlets reported that the Italian man, whom she identified as Emanuele de Maria (35), fell “dozens of meters” after he had reported to the Gothic cathedral into the square below.

The area around the Domd, Milan's most famous landmark, is usually teeming with people, but news reports did not quote any injuries among passers -by.

TV pictures showed the police, which blocked the area around one of the pages of the cathedral.

The authorities identified de Maria – who went on TV last year to describe his life – from an ID card in his pocket and tattoos, as several reports show, including Milan's Corriere della Sera Daily.

A witness, a bar owner named Emanuele Sanità, told the outlet that de Maria had landed right next to a boy who held a stuffed animal.

“He fell next to him. He was shocked. He was sitting there for twenty minutes without speaking,” said Sanità.

De Maria had served a 14-year sentence after reporting on a woman in 2016. Milano was arrested in Germany in 2018 after hiding as a refugee in the Netherlands, Milano reported today.

But for almost two years he has worked part -time in a hotel near Milan's central train station.

The police had been looking for him since Friday when he supposedly stabbed a work colleague. The condition of this man, who was identified as a 50-year-old Italian-Egyptian, improved on Sunday after emergency operation on the neck and chest, Milano reported today.