Sentence Carabinieri Marshal Franco Mottola to 24 years, his wife Annamaria to 22 years and their son Marco to 21 years. These are the requests presented by the prosecution at the appeal trial for the murder of Serena Mollicone .
The Attorney General Francesco Piantoni and the Deputy Prosecutor at the Court of Appeal Deborah Landolfi have filed the final brief with which tomorrow they will close the indictment on the case of the young woman from Arce (Frosinone), who disappeared from her home on June 1st 2001 and was found dead later three days in the Fonte Cupa woods in the nearby Anitrella area of Monte San Giovanni Campano.
Instead, acquittal was requested for the other two defendants, the carabinieri Francesco Suprano, due to the statute of limitations, and Vincenzo Quatrale, because the evidence did not reach the level of proof.
At first instance, two years ago at the Cassino court, the defendants were all acquitted .
On the day of her disappearance - this is the reconstruction of the prosecutors - Serena entered the Arce carabinieri barracks and from there into the Mottolas' accommodation where there was an argument, at the culmination of which the girl hit her head against the upright of a leads to unconsciousness; instead of helping her, the Mottolas would have left her to die and then abandoned her in the woods.
In their requests, the magistrates also ask the prosecutor's office to investigate three of the witnesses heard by the Rome Court of Appeal for forgery. Among these, Annarita Torriero, a close friend of Brigadier Santino Tuzi who said and then denied having seen Serena in the barracks on the day of her disappearance, and who committed suicide. The woman said she had never seen Serena in the barracks that day. Same request for Massimiliano Gemma, husband of Annarita Torriero, and for Giampaolo Tomaselli, colleague of the coachbuilder Carmine Belli, tried for the murder and acquitted at the end of the first trial in Cassino.
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