"I don't know what else to say to them other than kneel down before them. I'll throw myself at their feet and ask for forgiveness. My son must pay for what he did."
The father of the 17-year-old accused of the murder of Giovanbattista Cutolo, in Naples, speaks to Fanpage.it.
“This thing is destroying our souls. I only ask forgiveness from the father, the mother, the family, the companions. Everyone. We did not oppose anything. I live a lot with the failure of myself for not having had more time to perhaps lead them to a better path. Maybe this did not happen.
They don't have a son anymore and what are you going to say? It's a terrible thing. Just thinking about it. It's been a week that we've all been destroyed. We are a family that has always worked. There have been mistakes, errors that I have also made in the past. Now I have found my way and I am working.
My son has done a very big thing and he has to pay for it. He has to do everything that justice asks. We have not opposed anything. We have only tried to help him: in what sense? Through social workers with people he can talk to. A 17-year-old boy has done a very bad thing and he must be condemned and must pay for what he has done.
I say this as a father, for that boy, respect for that family and for that boy who is unfortunately down. Giovanbattista's parents have my full support. Justice must come, it will come and my son will take its course.
I don't know how many there will be, but my son must pay. Taking a life is the most serious thing in the world. It's something you'll carry with you for your entire life. It's right that it be this way. Because you're lucky enough to be alive now. He's not lucky enough. He's down now.
I am devastated, but I put myself in the shoes of the family. There are no words, I don't know what... If one day he will meet her because, to ask for forgiveness. I don't know what to say to him more than kneeling down.
You don't realize that a 16, 17 year old child can be vulnerable. And you only think about moving forward and trying to get the family going, to make them feel good. But maybe you don't realize what they do at night. So I'm only thinking about the child, I'm only thinking about this person who is down there. This is destroying me. We can't even eat. We look at each other and imagine that boy on the ground. The family that doesn't see him anymore.
I don't know if there is something to solve it, because even if I went to ask for forgiveness, as a father today I wouldn't have accepted anything. I'll tell you the truth, what I feel. Because they don't have a son anymore. What are you going to tell him. I just ask forgiveness from everyone. Because we certainly didn't destroy just two families. But we also destroyed companions, brothers with whom one grew up. We also destroyed other families"
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