In Naples, Mario Paciolla’s parents don’t give up: “We know he was killed”

In Naples a mobilization asked not to close the investigation into the death of Mario Paciolla, a aid worker killed in Colombia in July 2020: "We know he was killed", say his parents

NAPLES – “We know the truth, in these four years the family has tried in every way to make this story known. There is important evidence: we know that Mario did not commit suicide, but we also know certainly that he was killed“. This is what Anna Motta, the mother of Mario Paciolla, the 33-year-old Neapolitan aid worker found dead in Colombia in July 2020, said.

A NEW OPPOSITION TO THE ARCHIVING REQUEST IS READY

The woman spoke during an initiative – in which Pino Paciolla, Mario’s father, also participated – promoted by the CGIL in the union’s headquarters in via Toledo, in Naples. Right there a banner was displayed calling for “truth and justice” for Paciolla, a mobilization participatedby the many who oppose the dismissal of the case, requested for the second once, by the Rome prosecutor’s office.
“Now – announces Anna Motta – our lawyers, with a team of experts, are evaluating the conclusions of the Public Prosecutor to prepare a new opposition“. p>

MARIO DIED ON 15 JULY AT 4 YEARS DOES IN COLOMBIA

On 15 July, four years will have passed since Mario’s death and new initiatives have been organised, in particular a memorial to the aid worker which will be held at 6.30pm in Piazza Municipio, in Naples. “We must all say, with courage: we are not archiving.Mario’s affair is not a family affair, it must concern the whole of society, so that it never happens again“, underlines the aid worker’s mother.< br>The initiative at the CGIL headquarters was also attended by the confederal secretary of CGIL Napoli and Campania Raffaele Paudice, the spokesperson of Amnesty International Napoli Tina Marinari, the spokesperson of Article 21 Campania Désirée Klain, the deputy general secretary of the Fnsi Claudio Silvestri, the cartoonist Mauro Biani, the general secretary of CGIL Napoli and Campania Nicola Ricci, and the CGIL confederal secretary Lara Ghiglione.