Obsessed by Satan, prey to mystical delirium, possessed.
"We only did good," they told investigators during the river interrogation last Sunday.
Although the couple's lawyer even denies that they were interrogated and adds: "They are confused and profess their innocence."
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, aged 42, and his sons Kevin and Emanuel, aged 15 and 5, which had been planned for some time, apparently down to the smallest detail, there was an attempt to free the house of man from the devil.
It's a sect.
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.
"My sister told me that these two people entered their family. They told him that demons were inside my sister and my nephew and practically had to be burned and buried" said Calogero Salamone, Antonella's brother.
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.
Bruises and wounds were found on the bodies.
When Barreca called the police on Saturday night confessing to the murders, the soldiers ran into the house and found Kevin and Emanuel dead.
According to rumors, the two boys were hogtied.
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 boys have always attended regularly and with good results". And a disturbing detail emerges from the stories of some friends from Kevin's art high school. One of the students reported having received a letter on February 4th, a few days before the crime. message. "Kevin wrote that his five-year-old brother told him there were demons in the house - says his schoolmate -.
Demons who would kill and destroy their family.
He also told me that two people had entered the house who, if I'm not mistaken, were called brothers of God." Perhaps the name of the sect.
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