In New York an Italian tourist was seized in an apartment and tortured for weeks

The New York of the 1980s was the theater in which Patrick Bateman moved, the disturbing young man’s protagonist of American Psychobrilliant novel written by the pen of Bret Easton Ellis. The story that comes from New York in these hours, in fact, seems to leave those pages. Instead, dramatically, the fantasy and horror stories hit nothing, but it is once again the horror that has become reality. An Italian tourist – whose identity is not yet known, but we are talking about a 28 -year -old boy – it was held against his will for more than two weeksAnd in a luxury apartment in New York, where he was tortured and tied. Until he managed to escape and ask for help.

The boy seems, he had arrived in the United States at the beginning of May and had rented An apartment of more than $ 30 thousand a month in Manhattan from one of his acquaintances, The 37 year old American John Woeltz. With man, an important Kentucky cryptocurrency trader, the Italian boy had already had to do in the past, for some affairs that the two had done together, but that seems they had not ended too well. So much so that the relationships had stopped for a while, until Woeltz would convince the victim to return to Manhattan for a meeting.

Once you get to take possession of the apartment that had rented, however, the Italian would have been retained against his will, and tortured, as they would demonstrate Polaroid who seems to have been found by the police in the apartment of John Woeltz, and who – report the American media – They would immortalize the victim tied with electric wire, gagged and with a gun aimed at the head. Or with your feet immersed in a basin of water. Initially it seems that the police, in front of the scene of the alleged crime and the dynamics of the facts told by the Italian boy, thought of a sexual motive behind the kidnapping. Only later, do the overseas chronicles report, it is understood that that track had nothing to do with the story, and that the two had met to discuss business.

It is still too early To understand what the motive may be Or for further details on the dynamics of what seems, in all respects, an episode as a film, which occurred among the skyscrapers of the Big Apple, in a building where in many residents, mostly belonging to the Manhattan of the business, are questioning how something similar could have happened. From the first reconstructions, it seems that the Italian tourist said he was drugged by Woeltz, forced to take cocaine against his will, and also threatened with a chainsaw. According to reports some American newspapers, in the luxury apartment during the weeks of alleged torture, there were also two butlers, who would have been interrogated by the police, even if, if the news was confirmed, it would be to understand why they did not think about notifying the authorities during this long period.

After the escape of the Italian tourist – who was then taken to the hospital for the care – and the police raid in the apartment – where a firearm and numerous objects presumably used for torture were found, in addition to the Polaroids – John Woeltz was arrested and taken away to be questioned: came out of the building, escorted by the police officers, with a seemingly serene face and wearing only a white bathrobe. At the moment, Woeltz is accused of second degree aggression, kidnapping, seizure of person and illegal possession of a firearm.