The death of the Sicilian student Francesco Pantaleo remains a mystery still without answers, identified thanks to the DNA test after his charred body was found on Sunday 25 July in a field in San Giuliano Terme, near Pisa, a few kilometers from the home where the young university student, 23, originally from Marsala (Trapani), lived with two roommates. The student, enrolled in the Computer Engineering degree course in Pisa, had been missing since Saturday 24 July.
At first that body, found by a 17-year-old who was walking her dog, according to the investigators seemed to belong to a foreigner, to an African. But the Pisan prosecutor, already last Monday, pointed out today with a note the prosecutor Alessandro Crini, soon hypothesized that it could belong to the young man because, the magistrate explained, “the height, about one meter and 80, and the complexion coincided. clear before the effect of the flames “. For this reason, a few hours after the formalization at the police station of the report of disappearance by the parents who have in the meantime arrived in Tuscany, it was decided to take the biological samples of the family members to perform “genetic comparisons, in particular with the maternal DNA”. The comparison made it possible to identify the victim with certainty.
However, the circumstances of the death remain to be clarified and the carabinieri of the investigative unit, at the moment, do not favor any leads. They seek confirmation of both the hypothesis of suicide and that of a violent death. Two opposite theses, which at this stage it becomes inevitable to consider.
In his home, the young man, who may have had some stumbling blocks in his academic curriculum that would have delayed his graduation, left all his personal belongings before leaving: the mobile phone, also deactivating the geolocation device, the computer purchased a few months ago after deleting his files, wallet, ATM and his eyeglasses. However, there are many points still to be clarified: in the place where the body was found no evident traces of flammable liquid, nor of containers or primers were found. The victim wore a T-shirt and a pair of pants but did not wear shoes and the tenants of the few nearby houses would not have noticed or heard anything abnormal that Sunday, which was gray and muggy and also crossed by a summer storm, until shortly before 7 pm the body set on fire was not sighted. The CT scan performed in the following days on the corpse did not show any external injuries prior to the effects of the fire. It will therefore be the autopsy, in the next few days, to dispel doubts and direct the investigations: the examination will establish whether Francesco died from the injuries sustained in the fire or if the death was caused by other factors.
Pain in his Marsala. Hundreds of messages at the bottom of a post by the student’s father, Tonino Pantaleo, who wrote: “My son Francesco is no longer with us, now he is among the angels. Thanks to all those who have been close to me”.
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