Giogiò's mother is not having it. The idea that her son's murderer could be released no more than 14 years after the murder shocks her. The sentence of 20 years in prison issued on March 19 with an abbreviated trial against the 17-year-old accused of the murder on August 31 of last year in Piazza Municipio in Naples, at the end of a fight in which the young musician Giovanbattista Cutolo, 24, had defended a friend was not appealed and has thus become definitive.
The sentence, net of the discount guaranteed by the abbreviated trial, from 30 to 20 years, becomes final and can now be reduced by one sixth based on the provisions of the Cartabia reform in the part in which the benefit is provided when the appeal is renounced, thus deflating the judicial apparatus from the millstone of the proceedings in progress. Therefore, in this way, it would go down to 17 years but, with the benefits for good behavior, the sentence could be further reduced to 13-14 years. In short, the young man accused of murder could return to freedom at 30 years.
The news of the waiver of the appeal of the conviction and the domino effect of the sentence reductions, which had been anticipated by Mattino and Repubblica Napoli, left Daniela Di Maggio, mother of Giogiò, stunned . "I took it - she explained to Tg1 - obviously badly because the prosecutor had said that he would have asked for life imprisonment if the murderer had been an adult. The gift of forgiveness at this moment does not belong to me ".
"Not even 40 years - she emphasizes - can be a just sentence compared to what he has done. Why should my son be in a jar, reduced to dust, not considered by anyone and his executioner protected by justice and rehabilitated? ". Daniela Di Maggio, however, is not very convinced of the young man's repentance. "I wish it for him because we hope that everyone can redeem themselves but I don't think it's possible for what he and his family have shown themselves to be ," she concludes bitterly.
(Online Union)