Lucrezia Ciotti Alessio Tucci, the man who took the life of Martina Carbonaro, sent a letter to the Pope. A message that he defines as full of repentance, but that for Martina's mother represents only another wound, a gesture that reopens the pain. In such a fragile moment, the woman has chosen not to remain silent: she has responded with harsh words, marked by anger and a truth that knows no consolation.
It is a long-distance confrontation between those who have lost everything and those who are now trying to rewrite their face. Can a letter really heal what is irremediably broken?
“He Used That Stone to Kill My Daughter”: Martina’s Mother Speaks Out to the Pope
According to the mother of Martina Carbonaro, the murderer broke God's law by committing a conscious and cruel act, and now he even has the courage to ask the Pope for forgiveness, and in a public way. The woman recalled the words of Jesus – “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone” – stressing that, in the Gospel, no one dared to throw that stone. But in the case of his daughter, that man, on the contrary, he picked it up and used it to kill, without hesitation or mercy, fully aware of what he was doing.
Finally, she made a direct and heartfelt appeal to Pope Leo, asking him to listen to her too, the voice of a mother broken by pain.
Martina Carbonaro's mother responds to murderer Alessio Tucci's letter
Enza, the mother of Martina Carbonaro – the 14 year old brutally killed by her ex-boyfriend Alessio Tucci in Afragola, in the province of Naples – does not hide his indignation.
After the news of the letter sent by Tucci to the Pope, in which the assassin he asked forgiveness for the consequences of her actions, the woman expressed deep dissent. In her opinion, there is no point in talking about forgiveness: she believes that, if really dad wanted to understand the gravity of what happened, she should listen to her, a mother forced to see her daughter return home closed in a coffin. She declared that she would be ready to present herself personally to the Pope with Martina's bloody glasses, to remind everyone of the reality of that heinous crime.
“I can't allow them to remain just an object, must become a testimony. And they will also have to be seen by the Pope."
For the woman, the request for forgiveness represents a shameful provocation, an instrumental gesture by someone who seeks redemption out of opportunism. In her opinion, someone who has broken the fifth commandment – “Thou shalt not kill” – cannot delude himself into thinking that he can make amends simply with a letter.