Palermo, 25 January 2021 – In the river interrogation until dawn Pietro Morreale made a silent scene about the death of his girlfriend Roberta Siragusa. But in the morning the decision of the prosecutor came the same: the young man is now under investigation for murder, the Prosecutor of Termini Imerese ordered his arrest and the boy was taken to prison. The allegations: voluntary murder and corpse concealment. Morreale, 19, yesterday morning he had his girlfriend’s partially burned body found in a ravine aged 17. According to the investigators, it was he who killed the girl.
Now the investigations continue: the reconstruction is also being examined to understand where the gasoline to burn the body of the 17-year-old, sifting through all the surveillance cameras of the service stations in the area of the discovery.
Pietro Morreale did not confess
But he hasn’t never confessed: throughout the night Morreale, in front of the deputy prosecutor of the Republic of Termini Imerese Giacoma Barbara, who coordinates the investigation, Pietro Morreale would have continued to deny to be responsible for the death of his girlfriend. Or rather, as his lawyer Giuseppe Di Cesare who attended the interrogation pointed out, “Yes it is exercised the right not to answer“. Last night the lawyer said:” My client did not confess neither to the PM nor to the carabinieri “.
Before Morreale the magistrate had wanted listen to a dozen young people who had participated Saturday evening, together with the engaged couple, in a party in a villa in the Monte San Calogero area in the countryside of Caccamo, not far from the place where the girl’s body was recovered. Witnesses spoke of a quarrel over jealousy between the two engaged couples, who would leave the country house around midnight.
The social ‘condemnation’: storm of insults
The people of facebook had decreed his guilt even before the investigators investigated him for murder. A storm of insults rained yesterday on the social page of Pietro Morreale, accused of killing his girlfriend Roberta Siragusa and throwing her into a ravine.
Since yesterday I am over 3700, at the rate of one every 30 seconds, the comments to the photo that portrays them together in front of the Massimo theater in Palermo. “Suicide yourself”, “Give it to me, I’ll take care of it”, “I hope you will suffer for life”, “I hope you will have a party in prison”, “the death penalty would be needed” are the harsh comments that are read.
And also in front of the Termini Imerese barracks a small group of young people gathered who hurled insults at Morreale: “Piece of m …”, is just one of the epithets. “He shouldn’t have killed her – says Andrea, 19 – not even animals do this. I hope that at least end up in life imprisonment“. And another:” In twenty years he is already out and has his whole life ahead – he says – instead she is underground at just 17 years old“A girl joins the group and says:” They mustn’t feed him in prison, he must starve. It’s an animal. “
City mourning in Caccamo
City mourning in Caccamo, where the lifeless body of 17-year-old Roberta Siragusa was found.
All day the investigators of the weapon have listened to several witnesses to reconstruct the last hours of the girl’s life, who with her boyfriend would spend the evening with some friends in a cottage. Around midnight the couple would have left, but Roberta never returned home. Then the macabre discovery of his semi-charred body in the ravine.
“There are no words to comment on what happened, which shook and upset the consciences of the entire citizenry – says the mayor Nicasio Di Cola – I know both families and never, never could I have imagined this terrible tragedy that will forever leave its mark on our community. I went to the home of the young girl’s family, we hugged each other with our hearts and eyes. I do not add anything else. I’m destroyed”.
