Mena De Mare, the mother of Santo Romano, the 19-year-old footballer killed by a 17-year-old in San Sebastiano al Vesuvio last week, was a guest of Bruno Vespa on 'Porta a Porta' last night.
"I found out what had happened because my other son called me. He said, 'Mom, don't be scared, come to the hospital: Santo was shot in the leg.' At that point, I called Santo's phone to see if he was okay, but a friend answered. I told him, 'Tell me the truth.' And he said, 'They shot him in the chest, run to the hospital.'"
The tone of his voice is still full of emotion and pain: "I can't explain why these minors go around like this. Maybe they think they don't pay for what they do. Maybe they have too much freedom to do what they want, and in Naples the belief prevails that they don't pay for what they do, they don't get punished."
Then, when Bruno Vespa asks her if she wants to meet the parents of the boy who killed her son, her answer is precise and she explains: "No. We learned from social media that they wrote a letter. I ask the same question. If the parents were the other way around, would they want to meet me?"
Instead, Antonio Maimone, the father of Francesco Pio Maimone, the young pizza chef from Pianura killed for the same reason as Santo Romano—a dirty designer shoe—and by an underage friend of his son's killer, Francesco Pio Valda, talks about the crime situation in Naples.
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"We're abandoned; crime is everywhere these days. There must be certainty of punishment; we can't send a minor who commits murder home."
And again: "A 17-year-old boy commits murder, his lawyer says he's mentally ill and unfit for prison, but what are we going to do? Plant a loose cannon in the street?" I was expecting the "pistoletta" at Epiphany, but today in Naples, if you don't have a gun, you're nobody."
The mother of Giovan Battista Cutolo, known as Giogiò, also appeared on the episode of "Porta a Porta." He was killed at age 24 in Piazza Municipio in Naples while he was outside a pub. Giogiò, who was with his girlfriend, was also killed by a minor after he tried to protect a boy who was being bullied after a mayonnaise jar was thrown at him.
Giogiò was awarded the Medal of Civil Valor. "Whoever killed my son," his mother said bitterly, "went off to play cards after committing the crime. Everyone's saying, 'Let's disarm Naples!' These minors are getting hold of weapons as if they were lighters. How much apology they owe me, and the mother of Francesco Pio and Santo. They massacred our children."
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