Three of the defendants at the trial for the death of Serena Mollicone speak in the courtroom : the former commander of the Arce Carabinieri station Franco Mottola , his wife Anna Maria and their son Marco .
“I did not kill Serena Mollicone - said the latter - nor anyone from my family. I have never quarreled with her whom I had known since middle school. "
He knew her, he said, “because I went to my father's French lessons. We met in a group up to 16 years - continued the accused -. We have never been in a relationship , no flirting. In some cases, always in a group, she came to the old Arce barracks but in the new one she never came to see me alone, we met with friends even to smoke some joints. She was a reserved girl, but I have never been to her house except to study French with her father. "
"I didn't kill her, nor any of my family members - he added -, I never quarreled with her or got my hands on her. I learned from the newspapers that Guglielmo Mollicone (Serena's father, ed) was accusing her my family but he never said anything to me in person. I was surprised and astonished, we also thought of suing him but then we chose not to rage for the pain he felt and because he had accused other people too ".
Serena Mollicone disappeared on 1 June 2001 and was found dead on 3 June in the woods of Frosinone, her head wrapped in a plastic bag, her ankles tightened to each other by an iron wire and her arms tied behind her back. According to the Cassino prosecutor she was killed in the Carabinieri barracks. “I don't remember when was the last time I saw Serena - Marco Mottola said again -. In 2001 I said I saw her at the feast of Sant'Eleuterio the evening before she disappeared because I took it for granted that sooner or later everyone meets in the village ”, he added, referring to some contradictory statements made in the past.
