Monreale, a massacre born of a reproach. A 19 -year -old stopped: “I shot”

The young man is called Salvatore Calvaruso at the center of the investigation for the shooting that on the night between Saturday and Sunday, In Monreale, he led to the death of three boys and the injury of two others. 19 years old, he comes from the Zen district of Palermo and is now located in Pagliarelli prison with very heavy accusations: massacre and illegal possession of a firearm.

Calvaruso, already known to the police for precedents, He showed up at the night at the carabinieri station of his neighborhood, telling that he had suffered the theft of the scooter. A complaint that, according to investigators, wanted to be a way to build an alibi, since the scooter had been seen on the spot of the massacre. But the military, already aware of the first dynamics of the shooting, immediately connected his presence to the tragedy.

To the questions of the carabinieri, Salvatore Calvaruso confessed to having been among those who have opened fire That evening. An admission contained in the detention order signed by the public prosecutor Felice De Benedittis. However, once the interrogation has been made official, the young man made use of the right not to answer: his statements are currently not usable.

The testimonies collected have also been decisive to fit it. A friend reported having lent him the scooter and that he was awakened in the middle of the night: «He introduced himself to my house saying that I had to report the theft, because he had combined a slaughter, shooting and killing two people». Another witness confirmed his presence on the shooting scene. In addition, just near the place of the fight, the carabinieri found a pair of glasses that Salvatore Calvaruso recognized as his.

It all started around one and a half, in front of the 365 café bar, a few steps from the Monreale Cathedral. The boys who arrived from Palermo, tell the witnesses, darted among the tables with the scooters, regardless of the crowd. Hence the reproach of Salvatore Turdo and Andrea Miceli, who would have said: “Go slowly, here it is full of people”.

Was born a discussion degenerated in seconds. First shots of helmets, then, suddenly, the guns. At least twenty shots started, fired at men’s height. “It seemed to be among the fireworks,” he said who was present.

Three young people – Turdo and Miceli, but also Massimo Pirozzo – were killed. Nicolò Cangemi, 33 years old, was injured in one leg while he was courageously trying to stop one of the attackers. A sixteen -year -old boy was hit with a strip in the neck: the projectile stopped only three millimeters from the cerebral cortex. “I’m alive by a miracle,” he wrote on social networks, still in shock.

The bullets exploded, between the eighteen and the winds, started at men’s height, in the midst of a crowd of at least a hundred people. “It was only by chance that the victims were not many more»Observed the PM de Benedittis.

According to investigators, Calvaruso would not have acted alone. With him there would have been at least four other young people, now sought after. There are also two guns and two scooters used to escape the scene. The entire dynamics of the tragedy was reconstructed thanks to the surveillance cameras and the numerous testimonies collected: Saturday evening, between Piazza Duomo and the nearby streets, there were about a hundred people.