Hundreds of violent phone calls and messages, but above all a phrase, in which he expressed "understanding" for the murderer of Giulia Cecchettin, convinced the Carabinieri of Gallarate, in the province of Varese, to arrest a 23-year-old from the Varese area for stalking in flagrante delicto.
"I understand why so many boys, like Filippo Turetta, end up doing certain things," the boy wrote to the 20-year-old, adding: "I don't justify the act itself, but I understand and justify the reason with all my strength." The two boys, who like many had met on social media, had started dating last February. To investigators, as La Prealpina reconstructs, the twenty-year-old told them that they had broken up on April 16, the same Wednesday in which, a short distance away, in Samarate, 57-year-old Vincenzo Gerardi ended the life of his wife Teresa Stabile, from whom he was separating.
The threats began immediately after the end of the relationship between the two: he began calling her continuously and writing her hundreds of threatening messages such as "let's be clear, you're going to die, maybe in twenty years but I'll kill you, you're not going to get out of this alive today". And then "do you think you're powerful enough to do what you say? Don't think you'll get away with it, tell me where you are or do you want me to start with your brother?".
The 23-year-old - who has neither a home nor a job - already has a criminal record for mistreatment of his mother and brother. Left without a home and a job, he had found hospitality through a parish in Busto Arsizio. On Saturday he called the police asking to be arrested, because - he explained to the soldiers - "in prison I at least have the dignity of having food and lodging, because outside no one helps me".
That same day, the young man also went on a rampage at the emergency room in Busto Arsizio, threatening to kill or rape someone, while in the meantime bombarding his ex with messages demanding to meet her in person: "I'll come there and I hope your family is there, I don't think they'd be happy with what I might do."
