The investigating judge of Torre Annunziata, Antonello Anzalone, has validated the arrest warrant issued against Salvatore Ferraiuolo, who confessed to the murder of Anna Scala, the woman found lifeless in Piano di Sorrento, in the trunk of her car.
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The judge has ordered the man to be held in prison for pre-trial detention and is being defended by lawyers Gabriele Cimmino and Roberto Civita. During the validation hearing held this morning Ferraiuolo he said he did not remember what happened and that he had been hit by a blackout.
Meanwhile this afternoon in the Church of 'San Renato Vescovo' in Moiano di Vico Equense the funeral of yet another victim of femicide took place. The church was packed with hundreds of people. Many also came from neighboring towns to support the woman's family, devastated by grief.
Anna, who was a hairdresser, was very well known. She is described as a gentle woman, “who believed in love, always with a reassuring smile and who certainly – some acquaintances said – did not deserve to end up like this”.
The coffin arrived at the church shortly after 15 pm, under a scorching sun. Also in the church with Anna's family was the Mayor of Vico Equense, Peppe Aiello. But there were also other mayors of the municipalities of the Sorrento peninsula.
For Moiano, a hamlet of Vico Equense where Anna's family is very well known, it was “the day of pain”: “now we all feel like victims and wounded – the parish priest said, Father Maurizio Esposito in his homily – but we struggle to understand the terror and fear that Anna experienced.
Father Maurizio Esposito: “We did not know or could not defend her”
We did not know or could not defend ourselves. This is why we are all called to feel more responsible and to do something. Because no violence or argument is a private matter. We ask the authorities not to let it happen again."
But the question that also echoed in the naves of the church of San Renato Vescovo, in Moiano di Vico Equense, where many gathered for Anna's funeral, is only one: could this death have been avoided? The answer is a chorus of yes.
Bishop Franco Alfano's letter to his family
An appeal has been made by theArchbishop of Sorrento, Franco Alfano, who wrote to the family, thinking of Anna but also of the many, too many, victims of femicide in Italy: "I ask the Lord to shake our consciences and guide us to make courageous and shared choices so that this brutal and unacceptable violence may cease." There is certainly more to do.
According to the magistrates, Ferraiuolo must remain in prison because there is a risk of escape
According to the Torre Annunziata Public Prosecutor's Office, the fishmonger from Piano di Sorrento, Salvatore Ferraiuolo, killed with “unheard of ferocity” and "contempt for the sentimental relationship that bound him" to the victim. With these words the prosecutor Nunzio Fragliasso and the deputy prosecutor, Federico Nesso, had asked to validate the arrest warrant carried out on August 17.
After his confession to investigators on Thursday evening, in front of the investigating judge of Torre Annunziata, Ferraiuolo admitted the murder but denied premeditation. He said "of not being able to orient oneself at that moment, not even on a space-time level" and "in those psychophysical conditions it is to be excluded" that he had planned the timing and manner of his death, says his lawyer Gabriele Cimmino, who is defending him together with his colleague Roberto Civita.
According to the prosecutors, the man must remain in prison because "he would certainly have an interest in disappearing" in front of the “the prospect of a long prison sentence if convicted” and may “commit further offences” with “a high degree of probability”.
Furthermore, after the murder he made himself “untraceable” and “hidden” despite the searches of the Carabinieri of the Sorrento Company and the Torre Annunziata Group who hunted him down.
Article published on 19 August 2023 - 19:30
