Two university students suspected
of murdering a younger man during a two-day party that police
said was fueled by cocaine and alcohol could face charges of
premeditated murder aggravated by cruelty after telling
investigators their only motive was the desire to kill someone,
prosecutors said Monday.
Law student Manuel Foffo, 29, reportedly confessed that he
and fellow university student Marco Prato tortured their
23-year-old victim Luca Varani so that he would have a slow
death.
"We just wanted to kill someone to see what effect it had
on us," Foffo allegedly told prosecutors.
"We went out in a car the previous night hoping to meet
someone," he continued. "Then we thought of Varani, who my
friend (Prato) knew".
He added that the pair finished off Varani with knife and
hammer blows after beating and torturing him.
They also tried to clean up the crime scene, prosecutors
said.
Varani's body was found naked in the bedroom of a
tenth-storey apartment in the Collatino area of eastern Rome on
Saturday evening.
However, he is believed to have died the previous morning.
Carabinieri police arrived at the scene only after Foffo, a
law student and the owner of the apartment, told his father what
had happened.
Meanwhile Prato was taken to hospital after trying to
commit suicide by taking an overdose of barbiturates and alcohol
in a hotel in Rome's Piazza Bologna neighborhood.
He underwent stomach pumping and is now being held together
with Foffo in Rome's Regina Coeli prison.
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