• Lecce, alleged murderer arrested for boyfriends killed

  • Boyfriends killed in Lecce, the PCs of the two victims are being examined.

    Killed with 60 stab wounds

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September 29, 2020 He wanted to immobilize, torture and kill, then clean up everything with detergents and leave a message on the wall with a message for the city.

This was the demonstration action that 21-year-old Giovanni Antonio De Marco, stopped last night in Lecce because he was held responsible for the murder of the young referee Daniele De Santis and his girlfriend Eleonora Manta, had planned for the evening of 21 September last when the two were killed with dozens of stab wounds.

The young man was questioned last night by the prosecutor Leonardo Leone De Castris in the carabinieri barracks and when he got out in the car to be taken to prison, a small crowd of friends and acquaintances of the two victims railed against him.



The assassination of Daniele De Santis and Elepnora Manta "took place ... in just under ten minutes".

This "time frame" is underlined in the pre-trial detention order - which AGI was able to read - for Antonio De Marco, the 21-year-old nursing student arrested last night.

"... Shortly after - says a witness, who had observed the crime from the peephole of her front door after hearing screams - I noticed a figure dragging itself up the stairs, I didn't understand who it could be. In this situation I noticed a person who approached and hit him several times and I felt the person on the ground begging the subject who was hitting him saying several times 'enough, enough, enough!' ".

"Immediately after - continues the witness - always from the peephole, I noticed this figure, with a normal and apparently calm step, descending the stairs. The same was wearing a black sweatshirt, I presume he was holding the hood since I saw the whole dark figure, he had a yellow backpack on his shoulders with gray / silver inserts. I think he could have been about 1.75 meters tall, of normal build although I noticed he had broad shoulders. "





"The boy who was stopped lived here for a while. I only knew him by sight, I didn't even know his name, never talked to him, only good morning and good evening when we met. I don't know how long he lived here , surely this summer it has been seen several times ".

To tell Adnkronos one of the residents of the building in via Montello in Lecce where on Monday 21 September the fiancés Daniele De Santis and Eleonora Manta were killed and where Antonio De Marco also lived, the 21-year-old stopped last night on charges of being the perpetrator of the double murder.

"I knew Daniele, his girlfriend and the whole family. I have lived here since 1989 and they were already here - he remembers - we have seen him grow up".



De Marco would have stayed in the house in via Montello until 28 August, where he had rented a room used as support in the Salento capital to be able to attend university courses at the Vito Fazzi hospital.

According to what is learned from circles close to the De Santis family, owner of the apartment in via Montello, Antonio De Marco would not have given rise to any kind of suspicion, always behaving in a respectful way.

He left the house in the morning and returned in the evening, without giving any trouble.

Apparently, in short, the 21-year-old from Casarano gave the impression of being a boy like many others, but he would have hidden a dark side, the one that, according to the reconstruction of the Prosecutor's Office, would at the same time have led him to coldly plan the killing of the two young men.

"This can be found both from the inspection activities that the subject carried out in the previous days - specified the prosecutor Leonardo Leone De Castris - and also during the day of the episode, and from the examination and interpretation of the note lost by the subject, where not only is there a study of the itinerary to follow to avoid the cameras and, therefore, to act in safety, but unfortunately also the planning of the murderous action which had to be preceded by a preliminary activity prodromal to the murder ".

All elements that "make us lean towards the hypothesis that the murder should be a representation", concluded the magistrate.