“In my many years of career, I have never seen anything so horrible,” Ambrogio Cartosio, the public prosecutor of Termini Imerese, said at a news conference, describing what investigators and Rescuers were the first to set foot in Altavilla Milicia's house. seen, in the Palermo region, where the family massacre took place in which Emanuel, 5 years old, Kevin, 16 years old, and his mother Antonella Salamone were killed. There are four suspects in this first phase of the investigation: Giovanni Barreca, husband and father of the victims, the 17-year-old girl who confessed to participating in the torture of her brothers, and a couple who convinced them to wear these absurd purification rites to “free them from the devil”. Today the first results of the autopsies of the bodies of the two minors arrived, confirming the horrors carried out for days to carry out the domestic exorcism. Both brothers were tortured and tortured, with obvious traces of burns and mistreatment of all kinds found on their bodies. Just as the 17-year-old girl also admitted, explaining that she had participated in the massacre. However, analyzes of the mother's remains will take more time. The woman was burned and cut into pieces, then the bones were buried in the garden. More in-depth tests, including DNA, will be carried out in the coming days, also to try to establish the causes of death.
The funeral home
Once the autopsies are completed, the bodies of Kevin and Emanuel will return home to Altavilla Milicia on Monday, February 19. For them, the chapel of rest will be installed in the municipal structure of Zucchetto, which will remain open from noon to 8 p.m. Around 6 p.m., the priest Don Salvio Priola is also expected, who will dedicate a message to the two young victims and preside over a moment of prayer. “With the certainty of interpreting the deep feeling of condolences of the entire community of Altaville,” said Mayor Pietro Virga, “I proclaimed, in agreement with the other municipal administrators, the city in mourning for tomorrow, when the bodies of Kevin and Emmanuel Barreca, tragically dead with their mother Antonella Salamone.” The municipality will become a civil party to the trial: “It was a mature and considered choice, all the conditions are met, since the attack on the image from my center to real pain and confusion for what happened.”
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