Naples– “He told me it would be my nightmare and that I would end up like my daughter.” This is the dramatic complaint of Anna Lucarelli , mother of Gelsomina Verde , the 21-year-old innocent victim of the Scampia feud, brutally murdered in 2004.
The woman said she was approached last June, during the first hearing of the trial for her daughter's murder, by a relative of one of the defendants, the father of a man accused of escorting the car in which Gelsomina was kidnapped, tortured and then murdered.
Lucarelli reported the episode on the sidelines of the first-degree trial held at the Court of Naples, which led to the sentencing of Luigi De Lucia and Pasquale Rinaldi to 30 years in prison. The threats are now being examined by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate.
Meanwhile, according to investigative sources, the man who allegedly carried out the intimidation has been arrested for other crimes.
In January 2024, after years of legal battles, the state officially recognized Gelsomina Verde as an innocent victim of the Camorra, a long-awaited and symbolic step to honor the memory of a young woman torn from life by criminal violence.
Anna Lucarelli's story is very sad and makes you think about how violence can also affect innocent people. It is important that justice is done, but I also hope that similar things will never happen again. Gelsomina's memory must be honored.