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Murder Lecce, Daniele and Eleonora’s murderer caught: he is a 21-year-old student

It took exactly a week to reach the turning point. The alleged murderer of the two boyfriends Eleonora Manta and Daniele De Santis, killed on the evening of last September 21 in Lecce, was arrested a little while ago. He is a twenty-one year old from Casarano, a town in the hinterland of the lower Salento. His name is Antonio De Marco and he is a student of Nursing Sciences. For a time he would have lived in the home of one of the two victims.

“The only thing that it was not possible to reconstruct according to the accusatory approach is the motive, it is only partially reconstructed”, explained the prosecutor Leonardo Leone De Castris, “that is why we have only followed technical data, development of objective elements “. “The main elements of evidence are the technical data, the vision of the images of the video surveillance cameras, the interceptions and the graphical comparison” underlined De Castris.

Already this morning there was an inkling of a turning point in the investigations, as soon as the haematological tests scheduled for today had suddenly been postponed to a later date.

In these seven days the carabinieri of the provincial command of Lecce – directed by the prosecutor Leonardo Leone de Castris – have worked continuously to reconstruct what happened in the apartment on the second floor of a building in via Mondello, near the station of Lecce, where the two engaged couples had just moved.

A brutal crime, consumed with stab wounds: about 35 against Eleonora, 25 against Daniele, death came instantaneously, before the 118 rescuers, alerted by the neighbors. The condominiums of the building, heard already the same evening of the crime, were the first to direct the investigators in the right direction, describing the tall man, of medium build, hooded and with a light backpack on his shoulders, who hastily left the palace after the double murder.

A premeditated crime, as evidenced by the bloody note found in the courtyard, on which a sort of map of the streets near the house of the two young men without cameras was drawn. The killer was still captured by a local video camera and that frame was crucial for the investigators. In the days immediately following the crime, numerous people were listened to by the carabinieri, starting with some of Daniele’s referees colleagues, Eleonora’s INPS colleagues and then family members, friends who frequented with greater assiduity and fellow villagers of Eleonora, originally from by Seclì.

On Saturday, the funeral of the two young people was held, in which the priests had launched an appeal to the person in charge to give himself up. Eleonora, by the will of her mother, was buried with the wedding dress. Daniele greeted, on leaving the church, by the triple whistle of hundreds of referees.

“Let the cowardice of those who commit this act be extinguished – said the archbishop of Lecce, Michele Seccia – justice will take its course”. And, after a week, justice has, perhaps, made a point.

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