Turin: body of a man in the cellar, his brother arrested

The building in Via Principi d'Acaja in Turin

• Turin: body of a man found in the cellar, killed with a knife

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29 June 2021 For the murder of Enrico Pellegrini, aged 52, found dead Sunday afternoon in the cellar of an elegant building on Via Principi d'Acaja in Turin, his brother Carlo was arrested.

The man was arrested in Folgaria, in Trentino, on suspicion of murder of his brother Enrico. When he was arrested he told the neighbors: "It wasn't me, they accuse me unfairly."

According to the investigators, coordinated by the prosecutor Delia Boschetto of the Turin prosecutor, Carlo Pellegrini, 48, would have repeatedly contradicted his presence in Turin between 22 and 23 June, the date on which his Toyota car was seen in the inner courtyard of Via Principi d'Acaja.

Furthermore, the 48-year-old would not even have given convincing explanations on how he would have gotten the injuries on his bandaged hand. For investigators, he could have been injured during the fight with his brother Enrico. According to some witnesses, in fact, Enrico quarreled with his brother Carlo, for reasons still to be clarified, before disappearing and then, days later, a corpse was found in the cellar of the building where he had lived for years.

The lifeless body of Enrico Pellegrini, who worked in a social cooperative, and was not unemployed as initially learned, was found on Sunday afternoon with a knife stuck in his right eye and various stab wounds on his arms, lying on his back in the center of the cellar.

For days, since June 23, his father had not been able to find him. The man did not answer the mobile phone and therefore the parent decided, being on vacation with his daughter in Treviso, in Veneto, to alert the police. On the spot in Turin, the Fire Brigade called by the military of the investigative unit of the Provincial Command of the Arma of the Piedmontese capital intervened to open first the door of the house and then the door of the cellar where the macabre discovery was made on Sunday 27 June.

The Carabinieri tracked down and took his brother Carlo from the family holiday home in Folgaria, in Trentino, and took him to the Rovereto barracks. 

Lawyers Nicola Canestrini and Carmela Partziale - Carlo Pellegrini's lawyers - argue that the arrested man "does not know the facts that are being contested". The man made use of the right not to answer. A hearing to validate the arrest is scheduled for the next few hours.