Naples. “A lacerating wound that won't heal.” This is how Antonella Silvestri describes the excruciating pain that has consumed her since her son, 19-year-old Arcangelo Correra, was brutally killed by his friend Renato Caiafa on the morning of November 9th.
In a heart-wrenching letter published this morning in Il Mattino, the woman addresses a desperate cry to the world, a lament from a mother who, about a month after her son's death, cannot find peace. And how could she?
“It's four in the morning and my heart is breaking into a thousand pieces, just like that damned day,” writes the woman. Every dawn is a new stab, a cruel reminder of an unfillable absence. Antonella is no longer a woman, but a tormented soul, suspended between life and death, tied to this earth only by the broken thread of hope.
“He killed you while you were trying to teach him love”
His anger is directed above all at Renato Caiaphas, the young man accused of taking his son's life. “Did you understand who killed you, while you were trying to teach him love?” she asks herself, addressing Arcangelo as if he were still present. The trust she had placed in that boy has turned into a bitter awareness: it was precisely that trust that led her to hell.
“Envy,” accuses Antonella, “It was your downfall, my son.” And turning to the murderer, he adds: “You had the courage to call the weapon that took the lives of your father and brother a 'toy'? Don't you feel a shred of remorse?”
Antonella's letter is a cry of pain, but also a call for justice. The woman asks that full light be shed on the affair and that the person responsible pays for his crime. “Enough silence!” thunders. “I want justice for my son and all the innocent victims.”
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I don't know how you can live in these situations, the pain that the families feel is unimaginable. Antonella's letter is a clear example of how difficult it is to overcome such a great and terrible loss, I hope that justice will be done.