Punched and possibly beaten. Thus a 56-year-old was killed in the night in Turin.
For the murder, the police arrested a 20-year-old who lives in a council house in the area, that of Borgo Vittoria. According to some witnesses, the young man went down the street in slippers leaving the apartment door open. Then he lashed out at Augusto Bernardi, whom acquaintances described as "a kind person": the two would have had a fight for futile reasons and the 20-year-old apparently was in the grip of the fumes of crack.
Before boarding the patrol, he allegedly asked the officers to retrieve a pair of shoes for him from his home.
Once questioned, he confessed: " I killed a man, I ruined my life ," said Francesco Lo Manto, in tears, defended by the lawyer Francesco Rotella. He explained that he smoked crack and went out on the balcony. According to him, the victim would have asked him from the street for cigarettes . The young man then got out. A quarrel was born, during which Lo Manto would hit the man with slaps and punches, without using the stick he also had with him (the object would have broken when hitting the sidewalk). He then took the 56-year-old's backpack and took it to the cellar. When he saw the police, he went back to the street and gave himself up.
(Unioneonline / ss)
