Lanciano, the murderer is the neighbor with psychic disorders
Killed in the street by his neighbor as soon as he crossed the door of his condominium to go for the traditional walk in the center. The victim is Francesco De Florio De Grandis, 72, from Lanciano, retired and former house painter with a passion for painting and music. The murder took place this morning in Lanciano, at 8 am, in via Cipollone in the populous Santa Rita district.
The condominium, the same age, followed the victim and shot him a dozen gunshots in the back, then he fled but was immediately stopped by the carabinieri. Some witnesses witnessed the bloody scene from the facing balconies. The motive for the crime is linked to the schizophrenic crisis of the suspect convinced that De Grandis spoke ill of him. The prosecutor Serena Rossi went to the scene. Investigations entrusted to the Carabinieri of Lanciano, directed by Lieutenant Colonel Vincenzo Orlando, and coordinated by Colonel Alceo Greco, provincial commander of Chieti.
The victim, an expert craftsman also for the preparation of papier-mâché puppets for the carnival, was well known in Lanciano, known by the nickname of Ciccillo. Shocked the residents and the whole family. One of the sons, Carmine, says “He went out on foot to go to the center, by bus, as he normally did and to go to Mass in the Cathedral. He had traveled a few tens of meters and shortly after someone called the intercom at my house. mother telling him that dad’s bloody body on the ground. My father had never quarreled with anyone and he was a man he was very calm “.
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