Martina's Murder, the Father: "I Had My Daughter's Killer in the Car and I Didn't Know It"

Afragola– A piercing pain and a bitter awareness are gripping the parents of Martina Carbonaro, the 14-year-old killed in Afragola.

Their daughter was dead, but they didn't know it, and they shared the tense moments of the search with the very man who had murdered her: her ex-boyfriend Alessio Tucci, 19, a self-confessed criminal.

“He helped us with the search. I had my daughter's killer in the car and I didn't know it,” Marcello Carbonaro, Martina's father, says with a broken voice. “When I called him he told me 'he went his way and I went mine.'

Alessio told me he was going to take a shower, he shot himself in the foot: after the murder, he came home, went to take a shower, ate and went out.”

“He took off his dirty laundry from the crime”: The mother’s suspicion

Martina's mother, Enza Cossentino, is also uneasy. Yesterday she asked for a life sentence for Tucci, stating firmly: "Whoever hurt her will pay." The woman now reflects on the killer's chilling indifference: "He took a shower, that is, he took off the dirty laundry of the crime and no one knows where it ended up."

"Alessio came to do research with us and now I'm metabolizing that the arrest happened in my house. Now that I no longer have my daughter, I don't know who is giving me this strength, maybe my angels: my mother, my father and my daughter," adds Enza.

Retrospective Doubts: A Slap, Social Media and a Warning

With her mind delving backwards, the mother of Martina now she rereads details that previously seemed marginal. “Three weeks ago I learned that Alessio slapped my daughter,” reveals Enza.

“I had dinner at home and we couldn’t talk, then in my room my daughter said she had put up with a lot, even a slap, and that she was wrong to accept these things. My daughter has always spoken well of her boyfriend, but today I have the doubt that more has happened and that she has kept quiet.”

Another conversation, with Alessio's mother, comes back to her mind with a disturbing premonition. "My daughter met a boy through social media with whom she vented, Alessio thought he had cheated on her. And her mother didn't threaten me, but she told me 'be careful on social media, someone can rape and kill'. Now I can say that I had to be careful of her son. I don't know if it was a warning, that maybe she had understood something and didn't want to tell me."

Alessio Tucci's interrogation tomorrow

On the investigation front, the hearing to validate the arrest for aggravated homicide and concealment of a corpse notified to Alessio Tucci, defended by the lawyer Mario Mangazzo, will be held tomorrow in the Poggioreale prison in Naples. Martina's parents are assisted by the lawyer Sergio Pisani.

The Prosecutor's Office of North Naples has set the assignment of the autopsy expert for June 3, which should be held on the same day and further clarify the dynamics of the young woman's death.

The Attorney General's message: "A culture of non-oppression"

The Attorney General of the Court of Appeal of Naples, Aldo Policastro, also spoke about the Afragola crime. “There is a problem of prevention, of culture, of training that cannot be addressed in a criminal court, but must be addressed within society, schools and educational agencies, the family, the media with messages that exclude the force of oppression from personal relationships,” he declared.

Regarding the effectiveness of the laws against violence against women, Policastro stated: “I think they are absolutely sufficient. We have very advanced and effective legislation and a judiciary that is making the most of this: we are working in all the investigating and judging offices to the maximum to guarantee speed and effectiveness. But we understand that it is not enough.”

Martina's tragedy forcefully turns the spotlight back on a complex issue that goes beyond the criminal aspect, touching the chords of culture, education and prevention.