The referee’s partner, De Santis, called out the killer’s name. A witness after Lecce’s double murder: ‘Dressed in black, yellow backpack’

He escaped on foot with a knife in the hand. Dress Nero, i had one backpack yellow. It is the description that a witness provided to the carabinieri of Lecce of the assassin that the night of September 21st stabbed the referee to death Daniele de santis and his partner Eleonora Manta. All night researchers they questioned the couple’s friends and neighbors of the building in via Montello, in Rudiae area, where the two young people lived. One of the latter reported hearing the 30-year-old woman call out a man’s name.

Being examined by the researchers then also what was reported by the witness, to understand if that name was one desperate request help or name of alleged murderer. me carabinieri they are also on the hunt for images of the cameras Video surveillance of the area, public and private, which may have filmed the escape of the man with the backpack after the double murder in via Montello.

The most credited hypothesis for the moment is that the two victims knew theirs assassin, to whom the door was opened while they were having dinner. De Santis was found wearing Shorts me sneakers. Regarding the motive, the researchers are not unbalanced and do not confirm or deny the hypothesis that it may be a crime accumulated in the personal sphere of the couple.

On the other hand, the dynamics of the events are clear: the last to be assassinated, on the stairs of the first floor of the condominium, would have been De Santis, perhaps while trying to escape the murderer’s barbarism. The referee at the end of this football season dreamed of being promoted to B series and establish yourself as a condominium administrator. His girlfriend, however, originally from Seclì, graduated in law and recently hired inInps, she would be killed first in the landing at home with numerous strokes. After completing his mission, the assassin would have fled down the stairs and taken via Martiri d’Otranto making them lose track.

Investigators are also certain that it was not a crime of momentum, but a premeditated murder precisely because the murderer acted, or at least escaped, with his face covered, wearing gloves and carrying a knife. Today a meeting was held coordinated by the prosecutor at the Lecce Prosecutor’s Office Leonard Leon de Camp, with pm on duty Maria Consolata Moschettini and researchers. It was decided to confer to the coroner Alberto Tortorella the task of performing autopsies.

In mattinata i Carabinieri de los Ris They returned to the building for one more site inspection. They collected artifacts to be examined and executed reliefs Before returning to their homes, the first-floor condominiums who were asked to vacate the apartments last night so as not to compromise the footprints that the hitman in common areas.