Three days aftermurder of Christopher Thomas Luciani, the 17-year-old from Rosciano killed on Sunday afternoon with 25 stab wounds in a park in the center of Pescara, new details continue to emerge about the crime, for a group of boys are being investigated for murder. Among these, there is also the son of a Carabinieri colonel, who is now torn between the role of parent and that of guardian of the law: “Not only do I not absolve myself as a father, but I say that no adult can really absolve himself here. And I say that Maybe it’s worse than how you’re portraying it“, he said in an interview with Corriere della Sera. The young man, an eyewitness to the incident, provided crucial information to the investigators, contributing to the discovery of the victim’s body. His position is currently being examined by the Pescara mobile team, which will have to evaluate his involvement in the affair.
“I would like my son to live by improving his life from now on. I want him to keep in mind what happened over time, that the memory of the boy he saw die is alive and that he is up to it”, explained the colonel, then reflecting on the role of parents in monitoring their children’s social interactions: “I asked him where he went and what he did, who his friends were and how they spent their time. The answer was reassuring and in some ways misleading. He told me ‘I’m going out with my friend, the son of a lawyer’ or ‘I’m seeing that other guy, the son of one of your colleagues’. Should I have investigated further? Should I not have settled?
The affair has reignited the debate on the role of social media and cell phones in influencing the behavior of young people, but the policeman urged caution in drawing hasty conclusions, underlining the complexity of the situation: “There are no certainties here either. This is not the time to judge, it’s the time to understand“. Then the colonel concluded the interview with an appeal to the media: “I can only hope that those who do that job, those who inform, know how to find the delicacy needed to bear witness to such a sad story.”
The investigation is still ongoing and investigators are trying to reconstruct the exact dynamics of the facts and the responsibilities of the individuals involved. The story of one of the witnesses is chilling for the detachment with which the details are exposed: “NWe didn’t think about calling anyone, neither the police nor the ambulance“, said a boy very close to one of the two 16-year-olds arrested, who on Sunday afternoon was in the Baden Powell park in Pescara during the moments in which Christopher Thomas Luciani was killed. A testimony that confirms how the group of 16 year olds, despite knowing what had happened, left the park, while Thomas’ body was lying in the weeds, to go to the seaside “in peace”. In his statements, the young man underlined that, after the events, when the key witness “came back, he told us that the boy was dead”. Then the two 16-year-olds now under arrest emerged from the vegetation. At that point, he added, “we went to the seaside in peace”. “At the seaside – she said again – they told a summary of what happened. I know they were stabbed. This is what I know.” The boy also underlined that one of the two young people was arrested “He had a gun. He showed it to me after it was all over. She had it in her pocket. I don’t know how she had it. She told me that she was unloaded, without shots”.
