A teenager denies his involvement in the murder of deputy mayor Candido Montini

Those expecting a confession will be disappointed. The case in the Como area remains unsolved, in fact, it is at a standstill. The 17-year-old, arrested for the murder of Candido Montini, has denied everything. The interrogation was long, the questions relentless, but nothing. Not a word. The young man spent the night in the Beccaria juvenile detention center in Milan. In the meantime, the carabinieri returned to Catasco di Garzeno to carry out further investigations at the home of the detainee, in search of evidence. Silence and denial On one thing the researchers agree: the alibi provided does not hold. Sure the grandma claimed her grandson “went to driving school”, but the times don’t match the opening and closing hours of the driving school. Also, his adamant statement that he has no connection to the facts doesn’t help. On October 21, for these reasons, the prosecutor formalized the arrest and now the 17-year-old is being investigated for voluntary aggravated manslaughter. DNA analysis But how did the authorities come to suspect him? The common thread is the DNA analysis carried out on almost all the inhabitants of the small town in the Como area. On the night between Sunday and Monday, a match was found between the child’s DNA and what was found in some biological traces left on the murder weapon and at the crime scene. The investigations A wallet and a knife. Findings crucial to the investigation: The first item was empty and without identification documents, and the second was used to kill. The blade was not found along the road but on a roof behind Montini’s house, as if the killer had thrown it for disposal after the murder. Investigators worked tirelessly for days, searching in all directions, and also noticed shoe prints and some traces of blood falling from above that did not belong to the victim. The breakthrough lies in the DNA. As for the young man, we know that he is a neighbor of the neighborhood, who lives near Montini. One thing remains unknown: what would have led him to commit the murder. The last moments of Candido Montini The dynamics of the murder are still not clear. We know, according to what has emerged, that Candido Montini went to the bank on the morning of September 24 to settle some payments. He then spent a few hours at the store and returned home. According to the cleaning lady, the man was not feeling very well that day, so he returned home earlier than usual, leaving the shutter of the shop half way. Returning home on September 24, he never had dinner and was assaulted. He was beaten by a male subject, as found by the aforementioned DNA. A man or a young man who stabbed him dozens and dozens of times before finishing him off with a fatal blow to the throat.