First he said he discovered a thief in the house. Then he confessed to having killed his grandmother, Maria Teresa Chavez Flores, a 65-year-old Peruvian nurse, in her home in via Niccolò da Tolentino, in Florence, at the height of an argument.
Since yesterday evening, the seventeen-year-old has been in custody on charges of murder with malice. There is a danger of escape, according to the chief prosecutor Roberta Pieri and the prosecutor Giuseppina Mione, who signed the provision.
The boy had been living with his grandmother for four years, in the public house behind the Careggi hospital. It was he who raised the alarm at dawn yesterday, knocking on a neighbor's door and saying that a thief had entered the house and the grandmother would no longer wake up. The neighbor called 118 at 4.53am. Doctors found the lifeless body but became suspicious of bruised marks on the neck. The mobile team and the forensic team arrived on site.
The boy was summoned to the police station on Monday afternoon in front of the prosecutor Giacomo Pestelli. At first, he reiterated that he had been hit by a thief who suddenly entered the house. After an hour and a half , however, he admitted to having strangled his grandmother : he told the investigators that there had been disagreements between them for some time, that they often argued and that his grandmother would humiliate him and beat him. The scene was repeated on Sunday evening. The boy, after yet another argument, reacted by putting his hands around his grandmother's neck.
The victim had been registered with the Order of Nursing Professions of Florence and Pistoia since 2003 and worked in Florence with neurological and psychiatric patients.
His professional association specifies this in a note. «Maria Teresa followed several training courses with us - explains president David Nucci - and regularly attended the Order. She was one step away from retirement and we remember her as a serious and reliable professional. Her loss is truly a great pain for our entire Order which clings with affection to her loved ones and to those who loved her."
(Unioneonline/D)
