ROME – “Roberto Salis, shame on you”. On the day of the release of Ilaria Salis, the 39-year-old teacher from Monza, who will be able to return to Italy after 15 months because she was elected to the European Parliament, Alessandra Verni, mother of Pamela Mastropietro, the 18-year-old Roman girl killed and torn to pieces in Macerata on the 30th January 2018, he lashes out against Salis’ father, Roberto, who in 2023 on his social media profiles had commented on a heated argument that took place in the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Perugia between Mrs. Verni and the murder of her daughter Oseghale . The Nigerian, in the courtroom for his trial, addressed the phrase ‘Enough judicial persecution’ to the woman, who reacted by throwing herself towards him. The two, almost coming to physical confrontation, were separated by the prison police officers.
And precisely in January 2023, the date of the incident, Roberto Salis commented on a newspaper article in . The daughter had been abusing alcohol since she was 12 and was a drug addict at 18. Where were you?”. And then again: “No one deserves such an end (addressing the brutal murder of the young girl, ed.), but the mother who rides public opinion will never have any approval from me. Children need to be looked after. It is the only difference between men and beasts.” Today Ilaria Salis’ father said he was “very happy” for his daughter’s release: “I’m going to get her, let’s celebrate at home”, were his first words.
When asked by Dire, Pamela Mastropietro’s mother, commented: “Parents who can hug their children again are lucky. I can not. I can’t wait for that day to arrive for me and my puppy too. How much malice I read in Roberto Salis’s words towards me… A mother who lost her daughter, due to the inhuman malice of other men/monsters. His comments are reprehensible. The advice I would like him to receive is to show respect, especially when faced with pain, because luckily he doesn’t experience the same pain as me.”