Moments of tension today in courtroom 319 in Naples, at the end of the trial for the murder of Gianluca Coppola, the 27-year-old boy from Casoria who was shot on April 8, 2021 and died 40 days later at the Cardarelli hospital in Naples
After the reading of the sentence with which the Court of Assizes of Appeal (president Melillo) sentenced the murderer, 19-year-old Antonio Felli (who in the first instance had received 33 years), to 20 years of imprisonment, a provocative applause rose from the area where the victim's relatives were.
The gesture triggered the intervention of the police. “Even at the outcome of the appeal judgment – says the lawyer Dario Carmine Procentese, Felli’s lawyer – I do not find a reason for professional satisfaction, even if the procedural result obtained by the defendant is decidedly important and significant.
However, there remains bitterness for Coppola who died too young and without anyone understanding why. And I also feel bitterness for my client who will have to spend the best part of his life in prison”.
According to what emerged in the judicial process, Coppola was fatally wounded for reasons that not even the trial was able to clearly delineate. The mafia aggravation was also contested to Felli, considered by the Dda of Naples to be close to criminal circles, who however subsequently fell.
The sentimental motive was not ruled out, as Felli was linked to the girl Coppola was seeing. But even this circumstance remains unclear at the moment. In the dynamics of the event, reconstructed by the judicial police, an argument between the victim and the murderer is reported, before the murder, near a bar in Casoria; then, the shots that fatally wounded Coppola.
Article published on November 2, 2023 - 17:01
