The family of Noemi Durini has asked the Minister of Justice Carlo Nordio to take action against the director and educators of the Juvenile Penal Institute of Quartucciu in relation to the case of the day releases granted to Lucio Marzo, the young man who stabbed his 16-year-old girlfriend to death in Salento.
It is the last step - but there will be others - of the battle undertaken since August 10, 2023 by Imma Rizzo, mother of Noemi, and her lawyer Valentina Presicce. That day, at 5:15 in the morning, Marzo, drunk while driving, burned the police stop sign and fled at full speed before being stopped at the end of a chase . He had violated all the provisions imposed by the surveillance magistrate, which prohibited him from driving any vehicle and engine, and was reported at large for driving under the influence of alcohol.
The 24-year-old was in the care of the owner of a pizzeria in Sarroch at the time, Noemi's mother asked for and obtained a transfer to an adult prison, then she had the list of all the special permits obtained since March sent to her. Reading the document "made Noemi's family sink into grief, as if their daughter had been killed for the second time by the State".
On October 10, 2020, just three years after the murder (November 3, 2017) and just over a year after the Court of Appeal's ruling, Marzo was granted the first release to attend the conference "The meaning of forgiveness in life" . "Lucio Marzo - specifies the Durini family's lawyer - has never asked for forgiveness and has never shown remorse for the crime committed. His participation in a conference on forgiveness is a mockery for Noemi's family".
Moreover, the lawyer Presicce is convinced that the permit was granted in violation of the time limits provided by law . In response to a parliamentary question on the matter, Minister Nordio reported that «the regulatory provision with reference to the aforementioned time limits unavoidably prevented the granting of the aforementioned benefits» . But the Department of Juvenile and Community Justice, «instead of contesting the granting of the benefits and taking action» against those who had granted the permits, communicated that in the granting of those benefits «no irregularities were found».
Meanwhile, the permits pile up. Lucio Marzo goes to the stadium to watch Cagliari, to work in a pizzeria in Sarroch . These permits, the latter, turned out to be "a real failure". In fact, Marzo " was entrusted to the owner of this public establishment with an overnight stay at his home, when on 9 January 2023 he returned to the Ipm positive for cannabinoids and was driving the car registered to the same owner when he was stopped drunk at 5 in the morning on the following 10 August ".
"How is it possible - Noemi's family asks - that despite the positivity to cannabinoids, the March continued to be entrusted to the owner of this public establishment? ".
After that positive toxicological test, the IPM treatment team interrupted the award permits for only two months. Why? " The young man - the lawyer reports, citing excerpts from reports from the Quartucciu Institute - stated that he felt particularly sad and sorry... Together with the reference team, it was decided to use a suitable period of time (two months) before requesting another permit ."
This, the lawyer continues, "highlights that the 6-year course at the juvenile detention center was a total failure ." And "even more shameful" are the permits granted in March on 6 occasions (three days in July, as many in August) to "consolidate the acquaintance of a girl met in the workplace," the report states.
"Disconcerting," Noemi's family commented, "to grant a day release to a still dangerous individual to frequent a girl only six years after the murder of Noemi Durini. With the risk of endangering the life of another girl. This is the State that should protect and safeguard us."
Again: on September 25, 2022, Marzo will vote in the political elections in Quartucciu : «We are convinced, we are completing the investigations, that Lucio Marzo could not cast his vote in 2022 as he is banned from holding public office ».
After these events, defined as "very serious" by Noemi's family, Marzo was transferred to an adult prison, first in Bancali, then in Bollate (Milan). And in the Milanese penitentiary he was chosen to participate in the concert held by Lazza inside the prison.
" I have requested disciplinary measures against the director and educators of the IPM of Quartucciu. They granted reward permits in violation of the time limits imposed by law to a socially dangerous individual. They granted permits to vote to a person banned from public office, whoever made the mistake must assume their responsibilities ", explains the lawyer, who asks the minister to take a position on permits for those who commit heinous crimes.
"How long will families have to fight alone, without the institutions truly taking their side? We ask that Italian Justice go in the direction of guaranteeing greater protection to the victims and not to the murderers", concludes Valentina Presicce.
(Unioneonline/L)
