Verify any recent contact she had with her father and what kind of relationship they had re-established. This is also part of the Velletri Prosecutor's Office's investigation into the death of Denise Cosco, daughter of Lea Garofalo, who committed suicide on September 10th by jumping from her apartment building in Ariccia. Analysis of the woman's cell phone, already acquired by investigators, and checking her email account could provide useful information. The woman's father is currently detained in Asti, where he is serving a sentence for the murder of Lea Garofalo, the witness killed in 2009 by him and other members of the gang against whom she herself had testified.
In recent days, prosecutors interviewed Denise's partner, who may have provided evidence to help reconstruct the final hours of the woman's life, as she left no notes or messages. Currently, the case for incitement to suicide remains against unknown persons, while a religious ceremony in memory of the young woman, organized by the Diocese, was held today in Crotone.
Don Luigi Ciotti, founder of Libera, also remembered her. "There could be other Denises today who can no longer cope," because "there exists a 'delayed' mafia violence," Don Ciotti said, "that operates undetected for years, insinuating itself like poison into the soul." He then went on to define Denise's suicide as "a murder that lasted 17 years, the time that has passed since her mother's murder." "I don't want to accuse anyone," Don Ciotti said, "because in Denise's story, the State intervened without hesitation. She wasn't abandoned. Yet at a certain point, she must have felt incredibly alone. We can't ask witnesses for justice to sacrifice their lives for the common good, and then leave them alone with their own ghosts, which often afflict them."
This was a statement echoed by Chiara Colosimo, President of the Anti-Mafia Commission: "The State was present in Denise's story, but some wounds, inflicted by her 'Ndrangheta father, have not been healed. This story," she said during the commemoration, "must leave a mark on this land." Also present in the church was Undersecretary of the Interior Wanda Ferro. "The State's presence here," she emphasized, "is to say that we are here, that we will accompany Denise's son throughout his journey, but above all, to tell the Mafia and the 'Ndrangheta that we will not back down from these pages of history that must be remembered by all so we can forge a different path."
(Unioneonline)