(ANSA) - CATANIA, 17 JAN - It is Rosario Palermo, the former cohabitant of the mother of the young woman who disappeared from home on 4 June 2012, the man arrested by the Carabinieri of the Acireale company for the murder and concealment of the corpse of Agata Scuto, the 22-year-old whose body has never been found. The investigations were initiated by soldiers of the Acireale Army in 2020 after a report on the broadcast 'Who has seen it?' Rai3 on the presence of the young woman's body, suffering from epilepsy and an impairment in the arm and leg, hidden in the cellar of her mother's house. But the searches failed. The attentions of the carabinieri were concentrated on Rosario Palermo, explains the Public Prosecutor of Catania, "because of the particular relationship he had established in thelast period with the girl ", for" the falsehoods of the information provided to the investigators "about" his movements on the day of Agata's disappearance ". Among the" serious indications of the man's guilt and responsibility for the murder and concealment of the corpse "an environmental interception is cited." The man, speaking alone inside his car - writes the Public Prosecutor of Catania - frightened by his possible arrest, expressed his fear that Agata Scuto's body would be found in a cottage to Pachino and to make sure that she had been strangled and burned, reflecting on the need, moreover, to go to the place to check what was left of the body ". To raise suspicions about Palermo also the fact that the man"he would have tried to pollute the evidence, not only obtaining confirmation of his false alibi from his acquaintances, but even arranging a complex staging to simulate traces such as to justify the reason why the day of Agata's disappearance was seriously wounded in the leg "claiming that it was due to a fall in the mountains. For this reason, during the restrictions on free circulation due to the pandemic," he tried to hide an iron rod soaked in his blood on Etna, which he would have liked to find the day of his arrest in order to prove his alibi and his innocence ".but even preparing a complex staging to simulate traces such as to justify the reason why on the day of Agata's disappearance he had seriously injured his leg "claiming that it had been due to a fall in the mountains. For this he would have, during the restrictions on free circulation due to the pandemic, "tried to hide an iron rod soaked in his blood on Etna, which he would have liked to have found the day of his arrest in order to prove his alibi and his innocence".but even preparing a complex staging to simulate traces such as to justify the reason why on the day of Agata's disappearance he had seriously injured his leg "claiming that it had been due to a fall in the mountains. For this he would have, during the restrictions on free circulation due to the pandemic, "tried to hide an iron rod soaked in his blood on Etna, which he would have liked to have found the day of his arrest in order to prove his alibi and his innocence".tried to hide an iron rod soaked in his blood on Etna, which he would have liked to have found the day of his arrest in order to prove his alibi and his innocence ".tried to hide an iron rod soaked in his blood on Etna, which he would have liked to have found the day of his arrest in order to prove his alibi and his innocence ".
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