Hundreds of people were present at the procession in memory of the 31-year-old man stabbed to death in the middle of the night. The mayor announces the city's mourning on the day of the funeral
Hundreds of people took part this evening in Rozzano in the torchlight vigil organized in memory of Manuel Mastrapasqua, 31, who was stabbed to death in the street on the night of October 10 to 11. The procession set off on Sunday around 7 p.m. from the town hall square in Rozzano, in the Milan hinterland of Milan, to cries of “Justice for Manuel”. Around 400 mourners carried candles and tealights in their hands and marched to the 31-year-old's family home. It was accompanied by the applause of those who followed the torchlight procession from the windows. “Shame”. “A round of applause for the boy. I am with you, Manuel's mother. And again: “Who gives their child to this mother? Nobody”, some voices in the procession rise. Sister Marika opened the mourning procession, in the company of the victim's younger brother and other closest relatives and friends. For the assassination of Mastrapasqua, the carabinieri arrested Daniele Rezza, a 19-year-old from Rozzano who confessed that he himself collapsed at the sight of the soldiers at the Alexandria station: “I have a burden on me. messed up Rozzano, I killed someone,” he reportedly said. To then add in front of astonished police officers: “I did it to steal his headphones.” An absurd crime, for which Rozzano this evening clung to the family and friends of the unfortunate Manuel.
Family pain
“We are paying for life in prison, not him,” said Marika Mastrapasqua, when journalists asked her to comment on the arrest of Daniele Rezza. Did he confess everything? Yes, but not before trying to escape, members of Manuel's family now emphasize. “The father had to take him to the barracks, not let him escape,” said his mother Angela, noting that the relative allegedly tried to make him escape and even “washed his pants”. Recalling what a good boy he was, the mother then explained that “Manuel really never had anything to do with Rozzano, he doesn't know anyone. The mayor says
which is a safe place but it circulates there at 3 a.m….” However, the mayor of Rozzano Gianni Ferretti also participated in the torchlight procession, renewing his “most sincere condolences” to the family and thanking “on behalf of the whole city” the Carabinieri and the Tenenza of Rozzano, who “made a
important and rapid investigative work. Ferretti himself calls for “justice to be done now” and announces that municipal mourning will be declared on the day of the 31-year-old man's funeral. In memory of Mastrapasqua, a fundraiser has also been launched to help family members cover the expenses they will face.
