She confessed to being responsible for the death of 45-year-old Giuseppe De Mattia, the 17-year-old questioned at the police station in Bari. The girl, accompanied by her mother and in the presence of the defender, told the juvenile prosecutor that she had stabbed the man during a fight in the street took place late yesterday in the Libertà district of Bari.
The young woman was first heard as a person informed about the facts and then, after making self-accusatory statements, was questioned as a suspect.
In the interrogation the juvenile prosecutor Rosario Plotino, according to what is learned from defense sources, represented by the lawyer Massimo Roberto Chiusolo, did not qualify the accusation, reserving the right to evaluate whether to challenge the girl the crime of voluntary homicide or another case juridical law linked to the crime of homicide, or the culpable excess in self-defense.
Registration in the register of suspects with the exact legal classification of the facts will be formalized in the next few hours.
"He wanted to kill me and my mother and I had to defend myself", said in tears the 17-year-old who would have stood between the victim, who according to her story was armed with a knife, and the mother with whom the man was arguing. .
She was wounded in the face and, as a reaction, she would have held a knife in turn and hit the 45-year-old.
