A fight over nothing, and an unstoppable fury. This is how he died, beaten by his caregiver and finished with a blow to the head with a cell phone, an 82-year-old man, Fernando Monte, found yesterday in his home in Castrignano dei Greci by his daughter who had just returned from the sea.
The alleged perpetrator of the murder, Josan Victor, a 36-year-old Moldovan carer, was interrogated throughout the night and was arrested: he confessed. The tragedy, according to the reconstruction made by the carabinieri who intervened on the scene yesterday after the alarm raised by the victim’s daughter, would have occurred at lunchtime. An argument would have broken out between the two for trivial reasons, perhaps because the elderly man was taking an interest in the messages the man was sending on his cell phone, and the man would have exploded into a homicidal fury. He allegedly punched him, hitting him several times and leaving bruises all over his body.
Then he hit him on the head with his mobile phone, leaving a deep wound. The elderly man was found by her daughter who lives upstairs and who had come to visit him on her return from the sea, lying on the ground in a pool of blood, with other obvious signs of the beatings he had suffered. The carer, however, was outside the house, naked and in an apparent state of shock. The suspicions of the investigators coordinated by prosecutor Luigi Mastroniani immediately focused on him. Given his confused state, the man was taken to hospital and questioned during the night. He confessed by reconstructing what happened. From what we learn, the man had been assisting the elderly man at home for almost two years. Yesterday the morning had proceeded normally. The carer, as he used to do every day, had accompanied the elderly man in the wheelchair to the Lecce club which is located near his home. The two had stopped at the tobacconist, where the elderly man had bought a pack of cigarettes as a gift to the 36-year-old. Then the tragedy at lunchtime. In the elderly man’s house, the police found and seized the caregiver’s clothes and smartphone soaked in blood. The magistrate ordered an autopsy on the victim’s body which will be performed in the Vito Fazzi hospital in Lecce where the body was transferred.
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