A Birthday That Will Never Be Celebrated

"Today you would have turned 15, my daughter. Instead, you will forever be 14. I wish I could hug and kiss you. I miss you, princess." The pain and solitude. The bottomless void left by the absence of a daughter killed by her ex-boyfriend, Alessio Tucci, 19, who could not accept the end of their relationship. Today, Martina Carbonaro would have turned fifteen. Yes! Martina, who during the days of collective grief that moved all of Italy, was buried for the second time by the unbearable veil of oblivion, in addition to her violent death. Left to bear the pain are her parents and relatives, crushed by that sense of loss that erupted on the evening of May 26 in a filthy abandoned venue at the Afragola sports field. Fiorenza Cossentino, Martina's mother, instead of a cake with fifteen candles, wanted to publicly remember her daughter with a sweet message, without controversy: "Today you would have turned 15, my daughter, but instead, you will forever be 14. I wish I could hug and kiss you. I miss you." Who knows how many will read it. And who knows how many will understand it. Who knows how many will step forward to ease the pain of a mother who saw her daughter taken away in such a brutal way. "After the funeral, silence fell over that house," says lawyer Sergio Pisani, the Carbonaro family's attorney. "Today, Martina's parents will spend her fifteenth birthday without her. Without their little one. Without an extended hand. Without anyone's help. After every femicide, there is pain, but then only absence remains," Pisani continues, "absence of support, of true words. Absence of institutions, which parade on the day of mourning and then turn away. Martina deserved a life. Her parents deserve the presence of all of us and not abandonment and that limbo of pain that will never go away." A message for everyone, then Martina's mother closed herself in silence to take refuge in memories and pain. "She is a broken woman," confided lawyer Sergio Pisani, "I spoke to her this morning to be there for her on a day that should have been a celebration, but will no longer be. Just a few words." No significant news from the investigations by the Naples North Prosecutor's Office, which in the days following the crime had seized Martina's tablet and six other cell phones, including those of the ex-boyfriend and his family, and entrusted a court-appointed expert with the analysis of the large stone used by Alessio Tucci to strike his ex-girlfriend multiple times. The nineteen-year-old confessed and is currently in prison for the femicide of his ex-girlfriend. He has asked for forgiveness, entrusting his words to a letter addressed to Pope Leo XIV. Alessio Tucci entrusted his letter addressed to the Pontiff to a priest engaged in volunteer work at the prison where he is currently held. It is learned that in the letter, Tucci asked the Pope to forgive him for what he did and to pray for Martina. According to predictions, the request for indictment and the setting of the trial in the Court of Assizes could be set between the end of September and throughout October.