Killed by mistake by the Camorra because he looked like a boss. His daughter writes to Mattarella
“Justice for my father innocent victim of Camorra“, reads the appeal of Marianna Ferrillo, daughter of Mario killed in 1986 by Camorra hitmen who mistook him for a boss.
The appeal of Mario Ferrillo's daughter is addressed to the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella.
“My father – we read in the letter – was murdered while he was in his friend’s shop in Licola on the Domitian coast. Before shooting, the killers called him Gennaro. A month later, in the same place, they killed a certain Gennaro Troise, a criminal figure. He was the target and their physical resemblance led the killers to mistake the person a few days before, but my father was a good man, while the other was a member of the Camorra”.
“I – continues Marianna – was ten years old at the time and my mother raised us four children, carrying within her a great deal of pain, but with the dignity of a great worker, giving us an education and transmitting to us politeness and respect”.
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The case was closed in 1987 with no guilty parties and without the State recognizing her as an innocent victim of organized crime. “The humiliation for my mother was great when they told her that she was not entitled to anything and that it would have been better for my father and for us if he had died 'falling from a scaffold. Maybe that way they would pay him', words that she repeated for years with eyes full of tears”.
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In 2007, the Ferrillo family, appealing to law 302/90 for mafia victims, obtained a favorable sentence with Mario recognized as an innocent victim but without being able to benefit from the expected compensation due to the statute of limitations.
"In your speech on March 21, on the day of remembrance for mafia victims," the letter concludes, "you said that every man has the right to life, the same life that was taken from my father. No one will give my father back to me, but for the pain that was inflicted on my mother and the entire family, I ask for justice."
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