A 21-year-old man detained over the
murder last week of a young couple in Lecce has confessed,
sources at the prosecutor's office said Tuesday.
The suspect, Antonio De Marco, is a nursing student who used to
live in the same house as the victims - Daniele De Santis, a
young soccer referee, and Eleonora Manta, a civil servant.
"The action was conducted with cruelty and the total absence of
any feeling of compassion towards others," read the order for
the suspect to be detained.
According to prosecutors, after stabbing the victims several
times in their home, he followed them as they desperately tried
to escape before finishing them off on the stairs of the
building they lived in.
Prosecutors suspect De Marco planned the murder long before
committing it.
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