Giogiò's mother: "No more community, at 14 you have to go to prison"

The proposal is strong Daniela Di Maggio, the mother of Giovanbattista Cutolo, the young Neapolitan musician killed for trivial reasons in August 2023.

Since then, the woman has never stopped fighting for legality and for longer sentences for minors who use weapons, touring Italy in memory of her son who was killed at the age of 24.

The latest episode that brought Giogiò's photo back to the front pages of newspapers was the one involving Arcangelo Correra, killed at 18 by his 19-year-old cousin while they were handling a gun.

"Episodes like that force us to reflect on the difference between rehabilitative prison and recreational prison. If I release a boy who has already committed serious crimes after taking a pizza-making course or after feasting his eyes walking on the beach at Nisida, I have not built a conscience and I should not be surprised if he kills again.

It is on the prison system and the laws that we need to reflect. The seventeen-year-old killer from Santo Romano was released from prison in May: in his case too, instead of giving us a little angel, prison has released a criminal”.

This morning in Qualiano the children of the Ic Pinetamare of Castelvolturno marched, assembled in the orchestra named after their Giogiò. “A year ago – recalls Daniela Di Maggio – I prophesied that we will all die at the hands of armed children.

This is why I asked for and succeeded in introducing the crime of stesa, precisely because these boys continually leave prison and continue to kill and shed blood. This is why the boundary between rehabilitative prison and recreational prison must be well understood.

The killer of my Giogiò he had been put to the test. Once it was over he killed. That is why I proposed to remove the probation.”

In the meantime, the discussion has made progress and today there is talk of lowering the punishable age for minors: “I have been shouting it for a year: I went to Andrea Ostellari, Undersecretary of Justice.

I brought two neuropsychiatry reports from which it is clear that today's kids have a cognitive age much more advanced than when the Mattarella law on minors dates back to. Today at 12 years old they drive cars, we can no longer apply those laws.

At 14, the prison doors must be opened, no more probation communities. Parents must be made to pay a price and parental authority must be taken away when necessary.

If I see kids walking around with 1000 euro Gucci shoes I have to ask myself a question as a parent and instead they give bottles of poison to kids who end up killing the children of respectable Italy.

It is no longer acceptable – concludes Giogiò's mother – this way only monsters are created".