2024-07-03 10:12:56
(ANSA) – ROME, JULY 2 – The verdict in the appeal trial for the death of Serena Mollicone, the girl found lifeless in Arce, a town in the province of Frosinone, on June 1, 2001, is scheduled for July 12. The second-instance judges in Rome will be called to decide on the requests made by the Attorney General’s Office, which partially overturn the first-instance verdict when the five defendants were all acquitted. In particular, the prosecution, as emerged in recent weeks after the closing arguments were filed, has asked for a 24-year prison sentence for former Carabinieri Marshal Franco Mottola, 22 years for his wife Anna Maria and their son Marco. The Attorney General has instead asked to confirm the acquittal for the Carabinieri officer, Vincenzo Quatrale, and a 4-year sentence for aiding and abetting for the other Carabinieri officer, Francesco Suprano. For the latter, the statute of limitations had initially been requested, but the defendant decided not to avail himself of it. In the closing arguments, the Attorney General’s Office, as it did during the first-degree trial in Cassino, recalled the parallel between the tragic death of Serena and that of Marco Vannini, the young man who was fatally wounded in Ladispoli, in the province of Rome, in 2015 by a gunshot fired by her father, Antonio, while he was at the home of his girlfriend, Martina Ciontoli. The Attorney General referred to the obligation of “guarantee and protection of the owners of the home towards people hosted by them who are in danger of life”. For the prosecution, however, after Marco Mottola made the girl’s head hit a part of the guesthouse of the Carabinieri barracks, no one lifted a finger, she was not helped and, in fact, left to die and then abandoned in the woods where she was found. According to the prosecution, Franco Mottola put the plan into action to ‘cover up’ his son, get rid of the body and, during the first investigations entrusted to him, mislead. According to the prosecution, Serena’s death is, however, linked to a ‘concurring’ action by the entire Mottola family. “All three suffocated her with adhesive tape,” the prosecutor said in court. “We have evaluated the possibility that the conduct was carried out by only two members of the family and that the third limited himself to assisting. In any case, this person will have to answer for homicide by omission because he knew what was happening and did nothing to save Serena.” (ANSA).
2024-07-03 10:12:56