Obsessed by Satan, prey to mystical delirium, possessed.
"We only did good," they told investigators during the river interrogation last Sunday.
No repentance, no attempt to deny the three atrocious crimes committed, therefore.
Giovanni Barreca and his accomplices, Sabrina Fina and Massimo Carandente, claim responsibility for the crazy act committed.
Behind the killing of Barreca's wife, Antonella Salamone, 42 years old, and his sons Kevin and Emanuel, aged 15 and 5, apparently planned down to the smallest detail, there was an attempt to free the house of man from the devil.
It's a sect.
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It would have been Barreca himself who contacted the couple, whom he met during prayer meetings in an evangelical church, then attended privately, and asked to be helped to free himself from the presence of Satan who had taken possession of the woman and the two children.
The man, for reasons still unclear, spared his third 17-year-old daughter, who was found in the horror house unharmed and in shock.
And Fina and Carandente, who vent all their fanaticism in their social profiles full of religious posts, would have accepted.
Their sharing is not just psychological.
The two would, in fact, have materially participated in the three crimes which, as the hours pass, reveal themselves to be increasingly macabre.
Salamone would have been killed first, perhaps ten days ago.
It is also difficult for the forensic doctors who will have to perform the autopsy to clarify how she was murdered and the exact date of her death.
Only a few charred remains of the victim were found.
Next to her remains, buried under a few centimeters of earth in Altavilla Milicia, the family's town, there were the woman's clothes and furnishings, elements that suggest a truly esoteric ritual.
The three wanted to purify the body and objects with fire.
According to the reconstructions of the investigators, also based on Barreca's confession and the story of his 17-year-old daughter, it was then the turn of the little brothers who were subjected to torture before being suffocated.
The community of Altavilla Milicia is in shock.
A bouquet of flowers was placed on the classroom desk at the Bagheria Renato Guttuso art high school attended by Kevin.
His sister also went to the same school.
"They were followed at home. Their mother came often - says the school director Maria Rita Chisesi - Now we have to support the girl and her classmates who are devastated".
The two boys had been absent from school since last Monday.
"After a few days the teachers had called home - adds the manager - and the two pupils had said that they were ill. With the flu of this period we were not alarmed. After all, the children have always attended regularly and with good results".
And a disturbing detail comes out of the stories of some of Kevin's art school friends.
One of the students reported having received a message on February 4, a few days before the crime.
"Kevin wrote that his five-year-old brother told him that there were demons in the house - says his schoolmate -. Demons that would kill and destroy their family. He also told me that two people had entered the house who , if I'm not mistaken, they were called brothers of God."
Perhaps the name of the sect.
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