Prosecutors said Monday that a
suspect has confessed to murdering Stefano Leo, a young man who
was found stabbed to death on the banks of the River Po in Turin
in February, for the sole reason that he wanted to kill someone.
The suspect, Said Machaouat, a 27-year-old Italian with
Moroccan roots, turned himself in at the weekend.
"I chose to kill that young man because he looked happy. And
I couldn't stand his happiness," Machaouat said, according to
the prosecutors.
"The motive is spine chilling," Turin prosecutor Paolo
Borgna said.
Machaouat was quoted as telling prosecutors Ciro Santoriello
and Enzo Bucarelli that "I wanted to kill a lad like me, to take
away all his prospects, his children, his friends and
relatives".
The suspect, who showed investigators to where a kitchen
knife that is thought to have been the murder weapon was, said
he was depressed after splitting up with his ex wife.
"The worst thing was knowing that my four-year-old boy was
calling a friend of my ex partner daddy," Machaouat was quoted
as saying.
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