Serena Mollicone was attacked and probably killed in the barracks.

This is what emerges from the report, illustrated today in the Court of Assizes in Cassino, of the forensic anthropologist who carried out a consultancy after having analyzed the body of the 18-year-old from Arce killed in 2001 , after the exhumation of the body in 2016.

According to the coroner Cristina Cattaneo, in the last moments of the girl's life there was a struggle: the body presented "bruises and bruises" and the 18-year-old could have been injured with a blow to the head that would have stunned her. "It is a very probable hypothesis that the head injury caused a daze and then death came from asphyxiation but we have no elements to say for sure".

According to the report, the fractures found in the skull would be due to a blow against a "wide and flat" surface. The consultant spoke of "optimal compatibility between Serena's skull and the door of the Arce carabinieri barracks against which she would have been slammed". A violent blow, therefore, but not fatal. Only later would Mollicone's head be wrapped in a plastic bag causing "mechanical" asphyxiation.

In the trial, five people are accused before the Cassino court: the Carabinieri Marshal Franco Mottola, former commander of the Arce station, his wife Anna Maria, his son Marco, the marshal Vincenzo Quatrale and the constable Francesco Suprano. The Mottola and Quatrale are accused of complicity in murder and Suprano of aiding and abetting.

The girl, who disappeared on June 1, 2001, was found dead on June 3 in the woods of Frosinone, her head wrapped in a plastic bag, her ankles tightened to each other by a wire and her arms tied behind her back. That she had not been killed there, for the investigators, was immediately clear.

(Unioneonline / D)

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