Justice Demanded for Young Musician's Murder in Naples

"We want justice, if not there will be a civil revolution," shouted the mother of Giovanbattista Cutolo, known to everyone as Giogiò, the 24-year-old killed on August 31, 2023, by a minor who shot him in Piazza Municipio in Naples. The mother of the murdered boy is with about 50 people outside the Juvenile Court of Naples where this morning there is the preliminary hearing of the trial of the 17-year-old who shot and killed the boy. The minor, who chose the abbreviated procedure, confessed to having shot but not with the intention of killing. With the parents of Giogiò, there are friends of the boy and the family to whom the mother invited to shout "justice" for the murder of her son. "The judge," shouted the mother, "should put themselves in the shoes of the mother, father, and sister, think about this before the sentence. No to the abbreviated procedure. They killed my son as if he were the worst of the Camorra gangsters." The protesters hung a large banner at the entrance of the court with the writing "We want justice for Giogiò" and many are with musical instruments because Giogiò was a talented musician and was part of the Scarlatti junior Orchestra. "I hope," added the boy's father, Franco Cutolo, at the megaphone, "for an exemplary penalty, I trust the judge. We need serious government interventions on minors in general, but before new social policies, we need immediate measures. The first problem is weapons, too many in the hands of minors. And then we know that today's kids are not the same as a few years ago, judgments cannot be the same. He will have a reduced sentence because he is a minor but this is not justice."