From Music to Violence, the Two Lives of Moussa Sangare

(ANSA) – SUISIO, 30 AUG – In the town of Suisio, in the Bergamo area, everyone knew him. Moussa Sangare, the 31-year-old arrested last night for killing Sharon Verzeni, was seen at the bar in the main square until a few days ago. “He was normal, as usual,” says Andrea, who had always seen him around. “We greeted each other with a wave, that’s all.” And yet anyone who knew the boy agrees that for him there was a before and after the trip to England. A short period of life abroad, where he worked as a dishwasher, and from which he returned completely changed. Born in Milan to parents originally from Mali, before his departure from Italy he was described by everyone as a “good boy” and with a “great talent” for music, so much so that he had collaborated with artists of the caliber of Izi and Ernia. He also took part in the video for Izi’s song ‘Scusa’, released in 2016 and with 14 million views on YouTube, under the stage name of Moses Sangare. “He had a career ahead of him – they explain in the small town where he grew up -, he also wanted to take part in the X Factor programme”. The owner of the pizzeria Le Piramidi, where Sangare had worked for a few years, also remembers how he was at that time. “We’re talking about ten years ago, he delivered pizzas – says Ayman Shokr – He was a good guy, a normal guy. Then he went to work in England”. Leonardo, who lives in the same building where the 31-year-old had remained to live with his mother and sister after his father died of illness, says that when he returned he was a different person. “I saw him change at that moment. Now he was completely ‘burned’. I saw him taking drugs here in the street, in the square, everywhere. He didn’t have a good relationship with his family, I heard them arguing a lot, even at three or four in the morning”. To the point that, a few months ago, he also “set fire to the house”. The constant arguments would have led his mother and sister to “throw him out” of their home on the first floor, and at that point he would have “occupied the house on the ground floor”, which he entered “through the window”. Sangare was then reported for mistreatment by his sister and mother, the latter of whom also suffers from serious health problems. (ANSA).