Murder of Zoe, girl who died of precipitation trauma

"When we first met Alex he seemed like a quitter," they added, "In the last few social stories he seemed much more outgoing and confident, with gangster music and trap. He had been with Nicole, one of Zoe's closest friends, who told us he was obsessive, couldn't talk to anyone or go out dressed in certain ways. She had fits of rage, constant pushing and Nicole was sick at the time'.

"We also learnt that two weeks earlier he had already tried once, from what we understood they had secluded themselves to discuss this. We think that at the umpteenth rejection something was triggered. Zoe was grabbed and thrown down to hide," they then concluded.

For the death of Zoe Trinchero, the charge is murder aggravated by ulterior motives. This is what Alex Manna, 20, is accused of. Yesterday, 9 February, in Alessandria prison, where he was taken on Saturday evening, he did not answer to the gip, Aldo Tirone. Manna did not answer 'because he had already declared everything he had to declare to the public prosecutor' Giacomo Ferrando, pointed out Patrizia Gambino, the lawyer defending the young man, emphasising that the charge was not feminicide.

'A forensic consultant will be appointed tomorrow (today, ndr),' said the lawyer, 'for the autopsy, and I, as defence counsel, reserve the right to appoint a party consultant.

Of Manna there are memories from school, from the president of Artom, Franco Calcagno: 'He had dropped out two years ago at the end of the third year. He was attending the professional course of mechanical maintenance technician at our Canelli site and was a boy in difficulty, both scholastically and behaviourally. Alessandro came from a family that was itself fragile and never opposed our suggestions, but on the other hand never put them into practice'.

Yet the young people who frequented Manna did not believe him capable of so much. 'I knew him, I never expected this,' says Mario, 20, who had been Zoe's boyfriend until six months ago. He didn't look like someone who could do such a thing' and that night 'he kept shouting 'it's my fault, I ran away, it's my fault'. For a while he even pretended to look for the body.

On the contrary, Mario really thought it could have been Naudy Carbone, the musician of African origin who has been living in Nice since childhood and on whom Manna had tried to lay the blame: 'My friends went to pick him up under the house and the carabinieri took him away.

An attempted lynching, that of Carbone, which the penalists of Asti and Alessandria define as 'unacceptable. The public square cannot and must not make summary trials, substituting itself for the Justice of the Courts, which represent the only seat deputed to ascertain the truth,' they add, bringing their 'full and complete solidarity to the person who suffered the inadmissible attempt of aggression'. Fortunately for the boy, it was realised that it was Alex himself who had blamed the young man as a decoy.

Zoe. the 7 February story

A 17-year-old girl was found lifeless in a stream in Nizza Monferrato (Asti). According to initial reports, she showed signs of head trauma and strangulation. The young woman had spent the evening of Friday 6 February in some clubs in town, then allegedly left.

It was her friends who found her, in a spot not far from a petrol station, while driving along the road that leads from Nizza to the village of Incisa, after noticing her body in a stretch of the canal that runs along via Spalto Nord before flowing into the Belbo stream.

Zoe Trinchero worked in the station bar in the city. Last night, after saying goodbye to the owner of the business, she went to dinner with a group of friends at the home of one of them and then left alone.

"I knew Zoe by sight, here on the other hand I don't say we all know each other but almost. They called me last night at 1.30am (on 7 February, ndr) when they found the body. It's a shocking thing, everyone is very shaken by such a serious affair,' Simone Nosenzo, mayor of Nizza Monferrato, tells Adnkronos. "I heard a sister on the phone, she was clearly very shaken and I took the trouble to offer her condolences and show my closeness to the family, which is going through a terrible time," adds the first citizen.

At 5 p.m. on 7 February 2026 the announcement: the 20-year-old man stopped, confessed: he punched the victim, then threw her into the water.

The 20-year-old allegedly told investigators that he threw one or two punches at the young woman. The young man had boxed in the past. The girl allegedly collapsed and he 'panicked' and threw her into the waters of the Belbo river.

The two had had a relationship 2-3 years ago and the 20-year-old was in another relationship. For this reason, in front of the investigators, the young man denied that the reason for the quarrel was of a sentimental nature.