“They were playing in the courtyard last night. Serene, smiling as always. I still can’t believe what happened. ” Vincenzo struggles to speak. He lives in the apartment above the one where the tragedy took place. Elena and Diego, 12-year-old twins, killed by their father, probably suffocated with a pillow, perhaps after being sedated, details on which the autopsy and the toxicological tests ordered by the Lecco Public Prosecutor will have to shed light. The father, Mario Bressi, 45 years old (here the portrait of the man), would watch over them for hours before driving to the Victory bridge and jumping into the void. The horror in a white building a few steps from the cable car square that leads to Piani delle Betulle, in the heart of Margno, less than 400 inhabitants in the green valley. “The same cable car that the three had taken on Friday for a hike. Vincenzo had arrived about a week ago to spend a few days off – says Vincenzo -. The twins loved the mountains, I saw them grow, the paternal grandparents have been visiting Valsassina for more than 40 years. During the night I was awakened by a dull noise, but at the moment I didn’t understand, I didn’t realize ».
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And it is always Vincenzo who heard the harrowing screams of his mother Daniela Fumagalli when he found his dead children yesterday morning. “They don’t wake up,” he shouted in shock. “An injured animal from which their little ones have snatched. Here is what I saw – says the parish priest of Margno, Don Bruno Maggioni, who rushed to the scene of the double murder and suicide -. I know the grandparents of the two children, vacationers from house to village. A discreet, esteemed family, they seem phrases of circumstance, but they are not. Now Diego and Elena are two angels. The whole community is in mourning. ” Words that the councilor of Margno also makes his own, Walter Faccetti, petrified in the town square, surrounded by citizens and tourists who ask him what happened. Cross your arms, breathe deeply, shake your head and struggle to find the voice: “Beautiful children”, he can only whisper. Next to Antonio Pasquini, the mayor of Casargo, the neighboring town. “A horror movie to which there is no answer.”
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Elena and Diego in the photos on social media, he with the football shirt, she with the skates. The smile in the last photograph posted on Instragram by his father at three in the morning, perhaps after having already killed them. «They were polite and cheerful, mother kept them like two treasures, they were her jewels. I will never be able to forget his excruciating cry, “another holidaymaker says softly as he looks out the door. “It’s a senseless pain,” he adds, as he watches the Red Cross rescuers leave the building with tear-streaked eyes.
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June 28, 2020 | 09:26
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