Alessio Tucci describes killing of 14-year-old in Naples court hearing

The hearing opens

The second hearing in the trial of Alessio Tucci began slightly late on 10 November 2026 at the Naples Court of Assize, second section, in courtroom 116. Tucci has confessed to the killing of a 14-year-old girl in Afragola, near Naples, and is charged with aggravated intentional homicide. Most reports give 26 May 2025 as the date of the killing, while one outlet gives 25 May. Tucci arrived about half an hour late because of traffic and sat behind a screen that the parties had requested at the previous hearing. Carabinieri and police were deployed in large numbers to keep the two families apart, since they had already exchanged insults and threats. The judge asked people in the room not to raise their voices, after the first hearing was briefly suspended over an exchange of insults between the families.

His account of the killing

Tucci told the court that he and the girl were embracing inside an abandoned farmhouse when a WhatsApp message arrived on her phone from another young man. He asked her whether something existed between her and that boy, and she replied no, so they argued and he struck her. He said he hit her in two places in a corridor, carried her into a room and hit her one last time while she lay motionless. He said he could not clearly recall that final blow. Asked why he did it, he said he believed rage had built up over that day, adding that this was no justification. Tucci also said the two had become a couple in May 2023, when he was 16 and she was 12.

He described his state of mind in words the court heard directly:

“I had a monster inside me and I did something like this. I do not know how to give a rational explanation for it.”

Messages and the prosecution's version

Prosecutor Alberto Della Valle read messages from a chat in which Tucci reportedly wrote that karma exists and that she had to die for love. In another message, he threatened to go and kill the boy she had been talking to online. Reports say the messages also referred to knives. According to the prosecution's reconstruction, the 14-year-old was killed with stones during a last meeting, after she had struck up an online friendship with another boy about a week earlier. Tucci told the court that she repeatedly cut off calls from her mother during their journey to the farmhouse. Early investigators had described her refusing an embrace, a version that differs from the one Tucci gave in court.

Family tension and what comes next

The girl's parents left the courtroom several times, visibly shaken, and at one point shouted at Tucci as he walked from the witness stand back to the cell, telling him he had killed their daughter. The judge asked the parties whether they would be willing to give up the screen. The next hearing is set for 24 November 2026, when criminologist Roberta Bruzzone and the victim's father are among the witnesses to be heard. Earlier hearings had already heard a cousin of Tucci and several of his friends.