Murder at Villa Latina, Armandino’s last words: «Now I die». The arrested man: “I didn’t want to kill”

“I didn’t want to kill, I defended myself.” These are the only statements reiterated before the investigating judge by Luca Agostino, the 41-year-old from Villa Latina arrested at dawn on Monday for the murder of Armando Tortolani, a 42-year-old local small businessman, stabbed to death at the entrance to his home, on the outskirts of country, at the height of a dispute. A half hour in total. That’s how long the validation hearing took place, which took place in the early afternoon of yesterday at the Cassino court, in front of judge Massimo Lo Mastro and in the presence of the lawyer Marco Rossini who is assisting the man. The 41-year-old has been locked up in Cassino prison since Monday on charges of voluntary homicide and yesterday the public prosecutor who coordinates the Carabinieri investigations requested the application of the precautionary measure with him remaining in cell. The investigating judge validated the arrest, carried out correctly in the “Quasi flagrant case” by the Carabinieri of Cassino and Atina and applied the measure in prison, not believing the words of the arrested person and recognizing, instead, the social danger and the danger of recurrence of violent acts .

Investigators continue to dig and investigate, also listening to local people, the relationships between the victim and the alleged murderer. Relationships which, according to what emerges, have been somewhat tense for some time and which were definitively broken in the 48 hours preceding the crime. The motive, at least at the moment, is traced back to an appreciation, but also to the teasing, that the victim would have addressed to the sister-in-law of the arrested person on the evening of Saturday 18 May inside a bar in Val di Comino. Hence the “clarification” of Luca Agostino, known in the village as “Luchetto” with Armando Tortolani known to all as “Armandino” after his daughter’s communion during which he would have learned of the appreciation and glances at his brother’s girlfriend. Below the victim’s house, in via Pacitti, first the fight and then the stab wounds, two between the center of the chest and the neck. A scene of violence and blood which was witnessed by several witnesses and in the last gasps of life, the victim indicated to those present as the perpetrator of her wounding Luca Agostino. “Now I’m dying” he would have said.

The Atina carabinieri, who intervened on Sunday near the victim’s home, at the request of some eyewitnesses, seized a knife with a blade of approximately 10 centimetres, normally used for pruning, with which the 42-year-old was fatally injured. Knife that will be analyzed by the RIS to isolate fingerprints and traces of DNA on the cutting part. The witnesses also spoke of a stick seized yesterday by the police and which will be analysed.

THE AUTOPSY

To have full certainty of the cause of death, the public prosecutor will this morning at 9 o’clock instruct the medical examiner Fabio De Giorgio to carry out the examination on the body, again in the morning. Were the stab wounds inflicted, at least two, between the chest and the neck, the lethal ones? Are there any contributing causes of death? The medical examiner will have to answer these and other questions to get a complete picture of the crime scene. A consultant from the Tortolani family appointed by the lawyer Michelangelo Montesano Cancellara will also participate in the autopsy. There is waiting in the village to find out the date of the funeral. The entire community wants to pay their last respects to the young father. Villa Latina is still in shock from the murder which occurred late on Sunday afternoon which generated deep anguish in a small community where everyone knows each other. We don’t talk about anything else and we wonder what could have triggered such a fury. the carabinieri are digging into his life, even among his friends, in search of elements that could be useful in reconstructing his profile and understanding what ultimately triggered such a fury.

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