While broadcasting live on television on Canale 5, the fifty-year-old confessed to the crime, explaining that his mother suffered from dementia: “I couldn’t handle it anymore. I strangled her, I don’t know why I did it.”
Wanted since Sunday, Lorenzo Carbone fled to a neighboring town, before deciding to return to the house where he lives with his mother. That’s when journalists met him. They broadcast the interview on television after alerting the police.
Controversial broadcast
The broadcast sparked controversy in Italy over the ethics of Mediaset’s Canale 5 channel being undermined. “The code of ethics has been torn apart, we have reached rock bottom,” Gaia Tortora, deputy director of the TG La7 television channel, wrote on X.
