Teenager said he killed his family to “get rid of a foreign body”

A 17-year-old teenager murdered his parents and younger brother on Sunday 1 September at the family home near Milan (northern Italy), and confessed that he had “no real motive” for committing the crime.

“There is no real reason why I killed them,” the young man declared during the interrogation he underwent 12 hours after the events and in which he confessed to having stabbed his father, his mother and his brother in the family home in Paderno Dugnano, local media revealed.

The teenager felt a “foreign body” within the family, which “oppressed” him and thought that with the death of everyone he would have “been freed from this discomfort.”he revealed to the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office and the Carabineros (military police).

However, “I realized a minute later that killing them would not free me,” he said.

According to police reconstruction, The teenager grabbed a knife from the kitchen in the early hours of Sunday morning, while everyone was asleep: he first killed his 12-year-old brother and then his parents.

Then it was he himself who He called 112 claiming that he had stabbed his father after the father had killed his mother and brother, although during the police interrogation he changed his version and confessed to the crime.

According to the same sources, it was a long and complicated interrogation, which was interrupted on several occasions by the crying of the confessed murderer.

The phone she used to call the emergency services and the knife have been collected as evidence in the murder investigation.

The day before the crime, on Saturday afternoon, the family celebrated the father’s 51st birthday together with the maternal grandparents and paternal grandmother.who assured that during the celebration everything had been “normal.”

“Nothing special happened on Saturday afternoon. But “I had been thinking about it for a long time, it was something I had been incubating,” the detainee declared.

The young man had no apparent problems, either at home or with his friends, but He felt that he “didn’t have a real conversation with anyone” and that no one understood him.he explained to the police, according to the media.

Investigators who have spoken to him say he appears to be an intelligent boy, perhaps more so than average, and that his confession appears to be genuine, according to sources.