Kevin Barreca, the 16-year-old killed - together with his 5-year-old brother and mother Antonella Salamone - during a crazy exorcism by his father, sister and two accomplices, attempted to defend himself.
It is the last tragic chapter of the Altavilla Milicia massacre "told" in the precautionary custody order which ordered the prison for the murderers, the bricklayer Giovanni Barreca, Massimo Carandente and Sabrina Fina.
Barreca's daughter, a 17-year-old girl, now detained, is also accused of the crime.
Kevin, subjected to an exorcism together with his mother and brother, tied up and tortured before being killed,
managed to bite Sabrina Fina and kick Massimo Carandente, the pair of self-styled "healers"
who participated in the massacre.
But his strenuous defense did not save his life.
The signs of his reactions were found by investigators on the body of the woman who, when questioned, before making use of the right not to answer, said that the Barreca family's problem was the boy's aggressiveness.
A far-fetched version to cover the liability.
Today a procession of school children and girls welcomed the bodies of the boy and his brother, Emanuel, to Altavilla Milicia.
"I told my daughter that her partner had left. He is in another municipality in Italy. He had to leave because her father had found another job. What could I say to my five-year-old daughter" says the mother of a classmate from the kindergarten attended by Emanuel without being able to hold back her tears.
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Funeral home in the Municipality on Monday, citizen mourning proclaimed (ANSA)
The mayor of the Municipality of Altavilla Pino Virga proclaimed the city's mourning
and organized the funeral chapel in the municipal council headquarters, open until Monday evening.
The two coffins were accompanied in procession to the Zucchetto hall of the Municipality.
Many went to pray and say goodbye to the two victims of a crime that caused shock and great emotion in the town.
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"The community is truly on its knees, the wounds will remain, we cannot forget this horror, we must look forward and go back to living. The Municipality is obviously close to the family from an emotional and material point of view. In the next few weeks when they will be returned the remains of Antonella Salamone we will organize another moment of sharing", announces the mayor.
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Autopsy began in Palermo.
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"In this phase it is good to remain silent and the community was very struck by what happened - said Marshal Ettore Cannabina, commander of the Carabinieri station - It affected those who intervened and those who had to suffer all this. I was inside the house, and it's better not to say anything. Strong and touching scenes."
The archbishop
of Palermo Corrado Lorefice also went to the funeral home
.
"We must be wary of those who say they are healers or saints, we are all wary. But it is also the sign of mental fragility and perhaps the consequence of an approach that we Westerners have given ourselves. We have renounced the true face of God and others risk to take over - he said - Today after all this we still need God".
Video Massacre in the family, in Altavilla Milicia the funeral home for the murdered little brothers
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