{"id":787,"date":"2013-04-19T16:18:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T12:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ankakh.am\/?p=787"},"modified":"2013-04-19T17:26:31","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T13:26:31","slug":"unemployed-sicilian-man-murdered-his-parish-priest-because-he-couldnt-bear-to-listen-to-any-more-sermons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=787","title":{"rendered":"Unemployed Sicilian man &#8216;murdered his parish priest because he couldn&#8217;t bear to listen to any more sermons&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/m1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-785\" alt=\"m1\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/m1.jpg\" width=\"380\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/m1.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/m1-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/m1-435x300.jpg 435w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a>A Sicilian accused of murdering his parish priest allegedly told police he couldn&#8217;t stand to listen to any more of his sermons.<\/p>\n<p>Michele di Stefano, the padre of a small hamlet in Western Sicily, used his homilies to comment on the abundant misdeeds of his parishioners, which he knew of from their confessions.<\/p>\n<p>The elderly priest reportedly barely bothered to conceal the identity of the offenders, raising heckles among villagers in Ummari, near Trapani.<\/p>\n<p>He was found dead in his bed in the church rectory, after being beaten with the handle of a hoe.<\/p>\n<p>Antonio Incandela, 33, allegedly told prosecutors that he had come up with the idea \u2018to teach the priest a lesson\u2019 after a sermon in which the priest described \u2018bad apples\u2019 in the community.<\/p>\n<p>The father-of-one insists he did not mean to kill the priest, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.<\/p>\n<p>He allegedly claimed he had been aiming for his legs but missed in the dark, only realising his mistake afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>He then stole the priest\u2019s bank cards to make it look like a robbery, he is alleged to have said.<\/p>\n<p>Incandela, who is unemployed, was caught after he used the priest\u2019s bank card at a cashpoint, police said.<\/p>\n<p>He has been formally charged with his murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sicilian accused of murdering his parish priest allegedly told police he couldn&#8217;t stand to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}