Angelina Mango's stalker sectioned

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 22 - Carabinieri police have arrested a 49-year-old man with mental health problems who was stalking singer Angelina Mango, the winner of the 2024 Sanremo Song Festival and Italy's representative at the recent Eurovision Song Contest, local newspapers reported on Wednesday.
    The man from Mesola, near Ferrara, sent Mango letters and hundreds of messages and went to Sanremo to try to meet the 23-year-old in person.
    He also stalked Mango's mother, the singer Laura Valente.
    A judge had put him under house arrest in January following a complaint by the two women.
    But the stalking continued, so the court decision to section him and he has been admitted to a psychiatric hospital.
    Mango, the daughter of singer-songwriter Giuseppe Mango who died at the age of 60 in 2014, won the 74th Sanremo Song Festival with a pulsating track entitled La Noia (boredom). (ANSA).