Back tomorrow in prime time on Italia 1 'Le Iene presenta: Inside' with the investigation of Giulio Golia and Francesca Di Stefano entitled 'Monsters or Innocents?', entirely dedicated to the news story that occurred on 2 July 1983, known as the 'Ponticelli massacre'.
Forty years ago Barbara Sellini and Nunzia Munizzi, two girls aged 7 and 10, were raped, tortured, killed, and finally set on fire. A heinous and brutal crime, which shocked not only Napoli but Italy as a whole and that, after two months of investigations and three years of trials, sentenced to life imprisonment Ciro Imperante, Giuseppe La Rocca and Luigi Schiavo.
The three, who had just turned 18 at the time of the crime, maintained from the start that they were innocent. Today, after having served their sentences, they continue to declare themselves victims of what could be “one of the most sensational miscarriages of justice in our country.”
A case which has also attracted the attention of the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission, which recently raised several doubts about the investigations carried out, leading it to evaluate a possible review of the sentencing process. According to the Commission's analysis, in fact, the shadow of the organized crime.
With exclusive content made up of new testimonies that seem to overturn the narrative made up to this point, interviews with witnesses, investigators and unpublished documents in which the broadcast has come into possession, Giulio Golia retraces the stages of what happened, in light of the many questions that still remain unanswered.
From the complaints of the three defendants towards the police forces to the arrest of some witnesses heard a few days after the double homicide, up to the possible alternative leads that, perhaps, at the time of the facts, were ignored or underestimated.
Article published on March 11, 2023 - 12pm
