The 17-year-old boy who murdered his parents and younger brother on Sunday in the family home near Milan (northern Italy) has confessed that he had “no real motive” to commit the crime.
“There’s no real reason why I killed them.”said the young man during the interrogation to which he was subjected 12 hours after the events and during which he confessed to having stabbed his father, mother and brother in the family home in Paderno Dugnano, local media revealed on Monday.
The minor felt a “foreign body” within the family, which “oppressed” him. and he thought that with the death of all he would have been “freed from this scourge”, as he revealed to the juvenile prosecutor’s office and the carabinieri (militarized police). However, “I realized a minute later that killing them wouldn’t set me free.”he argued, in statements collected by Efe.
According to the police reconstruction, the teenager took a knife from the kitchen early Sunday morning, while everyone was asleep: he first killed his 12-year-old brother, then his parents.
Then he himself called 112, claiming that he had stabbed his father after he had killed his mother and brother, although during police questioning he changed his story and confessed to the crime.
According to the same sources, it will be a long and complicated interrogation, interrupted several times by the tears of the confessed murderer.
The phone he used to call for help and the knife were recovered as evidence in the murder investigation.
The day before the crimeSaturday afternoon, The family celebrated the father’s 51st birthday with the maternal grandparents and paternal grandmotherwho assured that during the celebration everything went “normally”.
“Nothing special happened on Saturday afternoon. But I had been thinking about it for a long time, it was something that was in the pipeline,” the prisoner said.
The young man had no apparent problems, either at home or with his friends, but he felt that “he had not had a real conversation with anyone” and that no one understood him, he explained to the police, according to Italian media.
Researchers who spoke to him say he appears to be an intelligent boy.perhaps more than average and that his confession appears authentic, sources say.
