The body without hands and without a head found last Monday evening off the coast of Santa Margherita Ligure was pierced through the heart with an awl. And the prosecution has no more doubts: it is a homicide. The mutilated body would be (DNA results are awaited) of Mahmoud Sayed Mohamed Abdalla, an Egyptian who would have turned 19 next October.

The hands, according to what immediately emerged, belong to the boy: when he arrived in Italy in 2021 he had been photographed and his fingerprints had been taken. The carabinieri of the Genoa investigative unit, led by Colonel Michele Lastella, and those of the local company are investigating the matter. One hypothesis is that the boy was killed in Lavagna, where there is also an Egyptian community, and thrown into the sea: the currents fed by the sirocco would have pushed him as far as Santa Margherita.

The hands were found at two different times on the beaches of Chiavari, the left one on Monday afternoon at the mouth of the Entella stream, the right one yesterday morning on another stretch of coast. At the moment it is not clear if the body was mutilated and then thrown into the sea or if once in the water it could have been disfigured by the propellers of a boat that did not notice the body.

These knots will be resolved in the next few hours by the coroner Daniele Bedocchi who carried out the first tests and discovered the wound to the heart.

The young man was divided between two salons in via del Campo, in the heart of the historic center of Genoa, and in Sestri Ponente. He had been a guest in a community for unaccompanied minors and had no criminal record.

(Unioneonline/D)