Salvatore Gioacchino Sedita is under arrest as a suspect in the crime. Today the inspection of the Ris at the scene of the crime. The mayor’s condolences, the words of the suspect’s lawyer
Racalmutothe “country of reason” as defined by the writer Leonardo Sciascia, is in shock.
L’yet another tragedy in the Agrigento area, was consumed yesterday evening inside a house on the third floor in via Rosario Livatino, a few steps from the town’s railway station. A few weeks ago another dramatic murder bloodied the province. A cardiologist, Gaetano Alaimo, was killed by a patient, Adriano Vetroin his doctor’s office.
The reconstruction of the double homicide in Racalmuto
Giuseppe Sedita, 66 years old, and his wife Rosa Sardo, 61 years old, were found in the dining room, almost embracing, in a pool of blood. The son, Salvatore Gioacchino Sedita, 34, was stopped by the Carabinieri with the accusation of having stabbed his parents with a cleaver.
The long night of interrogation, the “confused” story of the murderer
Salvatore Seditaafter a long night of interrogationmade by the deputy prosecutor Gloria Andreoli, would not have said that she had killed her parents. His account is confusedit’s empty, he says his name is not Salvatore Sedita but that’s just a masktells about a man with tattoos on his facelong hair, a machete in hand that he would go inside the house and that he he would go to the room.
The inspection of the Ris of Messina
There are many elements that lead to the arrest of the young man from Racalmutese under suspicion of crime. Inside the house, the carabinieri of the investigative unit found i bloodstained clothesone table set for three people who were preparing to have lunch: only one of the three seats remained intact in the passage of the homicidal rampage.
This morning after a meeting, to take stock of the situation, at the barracks in Corso Garibaldi, the carabinieri of the Ris of Messina have moved to the social housing of viale Rosario Livatinowhere the murder took place to sift through the entire house.
The mayor of Racalmuto: “Tragic story to reflect on”
“A ugly story that should make us reflect on what is happening in our society. I will liaise with the social services office to understand what other cases there are in the country in order to discourage and prevent the occurrence of similar events. Our country is shaken, we no longer understand where the dangers come from. We have to tackle the problem at all levels. The discomfort is high, so the attention of the institutions must be equally high.” He says it the mayor of Racalmuto, Vincenzo Manigliaannouncing that the day of the funeral will be mourning for the city.
Salvatore Sedita’s lawyer: “A foretold tragedy”
One wonders: but Was it a tragedy foretold? Could it have been avoided?
The suspect over time, it would threatened and assaulted the parents several timeshas abused his ex-wife with which he had a son, Simonblond and blue eyes like him. The same declared that he used drugs, crack, hashish but alcohol, which perhaps helped him in this heinous act.
“My client has not admitted any responsibility, but I think it is necessary to understand if he is actually capable of understanding and wanting”. So Ninni Giardina, Sedita’s defense attorney. “My client is a fragile subject, is a person who needed to be helped, given his background, no one has done it, where are the social services? It has never been followed by anyone. It’s a huge tragedy, the parents are victims because they lost their lives in a brutal way, I define my client as a victim and not a monster. Let’s start with a cultural revolutionWhy these people must be recovered, they must be reintegrated into society, they are not abandoned. Because what happened must never happen again”, concluded the lawyer Ninni Giardina.
The suspect Salvatore Sit downis now in custody as a suspect in the crimeto the psychiatry department of San Giovanni di Dio hospitalto Agrigento where the doctors are also ascertaining whether or not he was under the influence of drugs.
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