“My son will live a life of surrender, as we say. I want him to keep in mind what happened over time, to have alive the memory of the boy he saw die and to live up to it.” The father of one of the witnesses to the Pescara crime, a Carabinieri colonel already in service in Pescara and now in another province of the Abruzzo region, says this to Il Corriere della Sera.
When asked if this thought of his is a sort of perpetual respect for the victim, the colonel has no doubts: “Yes, it is.” In another part of the interview, the carabiniere father explains: “Not only do I not absolve myself as a father, but I say that here no adult can really do it, and that perhaps it is worse than how you are representing it,” in reference to the press.
ANSA Agency The crime in Pescara, the two arrested men attacked the dying 17-year-old Thomas – News – Ansa.it Fifteen stab wounds delivered by one, ten by the other. Doubts about the use of drugs by the two, who, once at the seaside, made macabre jokes about how the boy had been reduced to. City in shock (ANSA) A boy’s testimony: ‘We didn’t think about calling for help’
“We didn’t think about calling anyone, neither the police nor the ambulance.” It is one of the passages of the testimony of 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 – he said – 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 arrested “had a gun. He showed it to me after everything was over. He had it in his pocket. I don’t know how he had it. He told me it was unloaded, without shots”.
Another of the very young people involved, in his testimony, said he was convinced that the two boys now under arrest “had organized themselves for this thing, to meet this boy”.
The key witness, i.e. the young man who, having returned home on Sunday evening, discovered what had happened, among other things said he was “sure” that Thomas “was dead, there were many stab wounds in front of me. For example, he had had a stab wound to the abdomen, a stab wound to the leg, where the arteries are.”
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