Afragola femicide: Martina Carbonaro's mother to Alessio Tucci: "I'll never forgive you."

Naples – “I will never forgive you, you stole the precious diamond I had.”
It is a cry of pain, but also of accusation, that Fiorenza Cossentino – known to all as Enza – entrusts to Facebook.

She is the mother of Martina Carbonaro, the 14-year-old killed on May 26th in Afragola by her ex-boyfriend, Alessio Tucci, also a young man. A brutal crime: the girl was hit on the head with a rock after an argument in an abandoned lot on the outskirts of the city.

His post today is an open wound, a punch in the stomach

"I seek truth and justice, true justice," Enza writes, accompanying her words with videos of herself and her daughter. Then, a direct rebuke to the young murderer: "I don't know how you could look me in the eye and lie to me... I will wait for you and avenge my daughter."

A community in shock and an investigation that revealed hidden violence

Martina's murder shocked Afragola and the entire northern province of Naples. The Juvenile Prosecutor's Office's investigations revealed a troubled relationship between the two teenagers, marked by arguments, jealousy, and threats. Alessio Tucci confessed a few hours later: he said he had lost control, was frightened, and tried to hide the body.

In the following days, as the investigation outlined the motive of passion and the background to the previous violence, an episode emerged that deeply affected public opinion: Tucci wrote a letter to the Pope, from juvenile detention, asking for forgiveness for what he had done.

A request for acquittal that was impossible for Martina's family to accept. For her mother, that letter was "an insult to their pain," yet another gesture from a boy incapable of comprehending the horror he had wrought.

In memory of Martina: a red bench in Afragola

On Tuesday, November 25th, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Afragola will pause to remember Martina. A red bench bearing her name will be inaugurated in Piazza del Rosario: a symbol of remembrance, but also of condemnation.

"I rewatched our videos and I broke down," the mother writes in her post. It's a pain that knows no respite, a cry for justice that has been bouncing around the courtrooms and city squares for months.

Martina was 14. An age when one should learn to live, not die at the hands of those who claimed to love her.