Rome, 8 May 2022 – Crime of Wisdom, for all of Italy. For them the inexplicable and inconsolable death of a daughter. Marta Russo he was only 22 years old. The morning of 9 maggio 1997after a lesson in Law, she was walking with a friend in the avenues of the university when she was reached in the head by a gunshot. gonna die after four days of coma. The family will decide to donate organs. Difficult investigations and many leads, including that of perfect crime.
Donato Russothe father, answers the phone from the headquarters of the‘Association named after that beloved daughter. She has no doubts: no mystery, there is one procedural truththe final sentence of the Cassation in 2003 of Giovanni Scattone e Salvatore Ferraro, university assistants. The former had five years and four months for shooting (manslaughter), the second four years and two months for being his accomplice. Since then he has been investigating the mysteries of the crime. But Donato Russo replies: “I attended all the hearings. I am 100% sure of the guilt of those who have been sentenced. “
The weapon was never found.
“Difficult, once they have thrown it into the Tiber or somewhere else …”.
The motive was also never clarified.
“It may well be that the shooter wanted to practice … It was not clear why there was also so much silence. But the investigations were followed by competent people. They evaluated everything, at 360 degrees”.
Scattone and Ferraro have always declared themselves innocent.
“I have never heard anyone who killed admit that they did. Even the mafia are denied.”
The Sapienza crime was the first truly media case in Italy. How did you experience this clamor?
“Certainly not good. Also because the mass media often brought inaccurate news”.
Today, after 25 years, you and your wife Aureliana continue to work with the association.
“Unfortunately we always live with pain, the only thing we have tried to carry on are the things that Marta believed in. At the age of 15 she had already decided to donate organs. We then discovered from her diaries that the problem arose. of how to be useful to others. So we founded an association, precisely to spread the culture of organ donation. Let’s carry on its message “.
Tomorrow, the anniversary.
“At 11 we will be at the university. The students want to commemorate Marta. The pain never goes away.”