Murder Willy, Gabriele Bianchi speaks from prison: “I didn’t touch him”

“I have not touched Willy even with a finger. The only real responsible for the death of that boy full of life is Francesco Belleggia. It was he who sparked the fight that night, he who hit Willy with a kick in the neck when he was in on his knees, about to get up. He, again, denying his responsibilities while in the waiting room of the carabinieri we pressed him and motioned us to shut up. Again he, paradoxically, the only one of us four, to find himself from the first moment under house arrest “. Mario Pincarelli had already done so and today, writing to Adnkronos from Rebibbia prison, is Gabriele Bianchi, the other co-accused, together with his brother Marco and Francesco Belleggia, for the murder of Willy Monteiro Duarte, the 21-year-old of Cape Verdean origins beaten to death on the night between 5 and 6 September 2020 in Colleferro. ‘PAINTED LIKE A MONSTER, I HAVE SUFFERED IMMENSELY’ In four white sheets written in elementary and narrow handwriting, he says: “I have been living as a recluse in prison for 17 months now, after 11 months spent in solitary confinement in section G12. Months that seemed like years, endless days punctuated only by a shower and an hour of air in reinforced concrete tunnels. I suffered immensely, I constantly sent requests to the judge and the director so that I could access the common room. Each time they answered no, fearing problems in section with the other inmates ‘fomented’ by the image that my brother and I gave on the news. I was portrayed as a killer monster, I witnessed helplessly the lies and insults of which unknown people invaded my social profiles and di Marco – continues Gabriele – It is horrible to see one’s photos on television, to be accused of a crime that we – use the plural, also referring to the brother – have never committed I know “. ‘TARGETED PEOPLE NEARBY, DESTROY OUR LIVES’ “People close to us have also been targeted, our lives destroyed. Without knowing that the real culprit in the death of poor Willy is Francesco Belleggia (he writes, this time, to block letters) That damned night a boy full of life died because of a stupid quarrel that Francesco started and which he himself ended with a kick in the neck of Willy while he was on his knees, about to get up. Just a coward. it can strike a person in difficulty. An attitude that he maintained in front of the prosecutor, when instead of admitting that he actively participated in the dispute and hit Willy, he dumped the responsibility on Marco and me, thus unleashing the media hatred towards us . I, who have not even touched that boy, find myself in prison far from my wife and my son, whom I have not even seen born. Francesco Belleggia, the culprit of this misfortune. , who has filled the prosecutor with lies by changing his version several times, who has traces of DNA on his shoes, is serving his sentence at home “. ‘NEVER PROBLEMS WITH OTHER INMATES’

“My only fault that night, and I also told the magistrate, was hitting Willy’s friend, Samuele Cenciarelli. I feel bad about Willy’s death – writes Gabriele Bianchi to Adnkronos – for the lies they have filmed and spinning and I wonder, I always wonder, why the Colleferro carabinieri did not make available any audio and video of the waiting room of the barracks, where we all met together shortly after the events and where Belleggia was crying desperately , aware that he had committed a crime. Pincarelli pressed him to take responsibility, I asked him if he had told the lawyer the truth, that he had kicked the victim in the face. He motioned me to shut up, that the carabinieri were listening to us. The lies continued here, once we were in prison. They told of my brother’s and my brother’s problems of coexistence with the other inmates, even going so far as to spit on our plates. all to divert attention from Belleggia. A lot of evidence, as emerged during the hearings, is against him. Yet it seems it is easier to continue to tarnish us, rather than admit having made a mistake. “‘WITNESS CONDITIONED BY THE MEDIA'” Conditioned by the media, even the witnesses have twisted their statements by inventing blows never struck. I never wish anyone what has been done to us in the media – he continues – without being able to defend ourselves. It is disheartening. I asked some inmates to write their thoughts, their opinion of me. I collected 140, all positive. I would like to cry out to the world my innocence, I wanted to do it in the first place by writing a letter to Willy’s family, especially to my mother, who I saw in the classroom with her sister, but I feared that my intentions could be misunderstood. I would pay gold to be able to look that woman in her eyes, tell her that I am immensely sorry for Willy, that I understand her pain, being her father. But I have not touched his son even with a finger. I told my wife that day in court too. She, like me, victim of inferences and lies “. ‘NEVER HAVE SEX WITH THOSE GIRLS, I DON’T LOSE MY SON BORN WITHOUT ME’

The reference is to the journey by car to the parking lot of the Colleferro cemetery, together with Vittorio and his brother Marco with three girls, before they were recalled for the quarrel that would have cost Willy his life. “That night I should never have gone away to accompany my brother and her friends. I did not have sex with those girls, as the media invented. But I do not forgive the fact that my wife had to give birth and have our child born without any. me, who is forced to see them once a week “. “To date I am imprisoned in section G12 – he says – there are six of us in the cell and I have never had any problems, I get along well with everyone, even with the inmates of the other sections. In the morning I go to school, I am in the fourth year of the course as a computer expert, in the afternoon I train to keep fit, on Wednesday morning then I take piano lessons while on Saturday afternoon I go to mass. I have submitted dozens of requests to be able to work, so as not to weigh on the shoulders of my wife and my family. And then I pray. I pray every night that justice will find the real responsible for Willy’s death, first of all for his mother and then for all his family. I trust in justice “, he wrote in capital letters before signing the last of four pages. (by Silvia Mancinelli)