Crime of Olgiata, the son of Alberica Filo Della Torre speaks: “Release was in the air, wound does not heal ‘

“This bothers me a lot. Let’s say it was in the air, we already knew about it a year and a half ago, when our father died, when the killer of my mother was granted bonus permits”. This is the cry of anger launched at Adnkronos by Manfredi Mattei, son of Countess Alberica Filo Della Torre killed on 10 July 1991, in the villa in Olgiata – a residential area north of Rome – by Manuel Winston Reyes, Filipino and family butler , who will be released from prison on October 10 after ten years of his murder sentence, initially set at 16 years in prison. “Unfortunately – he adds – we are witnessing a series of excellent releases, there is certainly something that is not working within the justice system in Italy. My mother’s murderer comes out after only 10 years from her sentence and it took a long time ago. 20 to find a person in charge. Manager found only thanks to my father’s stubbornness. It is normal for you to ask yourself a few questions. The sentence had to be life imprisonment, and instead he is practically already out “. “How can I explain it? I go straight – says Manfredi Mattei – because they turn me around a lot. There are two weights and two measures. and kill, after 10 years it may happen that you are out. I do not put it on political connotations, it is certain that if you witness cases of people serving their entire sentence and others not … you get some doubts “. A wound that reopens ? “No – he says – because the wound has never closed. Never. It always remains open. First the perpetrator was not able to be found, then the person responsible for the crime is found but exits. There is always one. The eve of the anniversary of my mother’s death is news that hurts a lot. It is so unfortunately, let’s go on … “, he concludes. (by Paolo Signorelli)