Marta Russo, the Sapienza crime in a docu-series with unpublished details

'Marta Russo - Il delitto della Sapienza' will be broadcast on Thursday 9 and Friday 10 May at 10pm, on Sky Crime and streaming on Now

ROME – 27 years after the disappearance of Marta Russo, a docu-series “to get to the truth, not for revenge but for justice”. ‘Marta Russo – Il delitto della Sapienza’ will be broadcast on Thursday 9 and Friday 10 May at 10pm, on Sky Crime and streaming on Now.

9 May 1997, Rome. Marta Russo, a 22-year-old student, is hit in the head by a stray bullet while walking on the La Sapienza university campus with a friend. He died in hospital five days later. Through the audio recordings of Marta’s intimate and secret diary, which has never been made public until now, we retrace the unpublished story of a story that shocked and passionate Italy.

Justice finds Giovanni Scattone and Salvatore Ferraro guilty, but leaves many disturbing questions open. The death of the young student is in fact one of the most controversial legal cases in Italy.

Among unpublished and intimate interviews and documents, the docu-series produced by Minerva Pictures highlights how the dark sides of this terrible affair are still very many and that as underlined by one of the witnesses “the truth must be told, supported and defended” and that as Marta’s mother always maintained “We must get to the truth not for revenge but for justice”.