Abrupt free, mother child dissolved in acid: “We can’t accept it”

“We clearly respect the decisions of the judicial authorities, but as Giuseppe’s mother, together with my son Nicola, we absolutely cannot accept all this”. These are the words that Franca Castellese, the mother of little Giuseppe Di Matteo, the child kidnapped and dissolved in acid, entrusts to Adnkronos through her lawyer, the lawyer Monica Genovese. Mama Franca does not mean more. The son Giuseppe was first strangled and then dissolved in acid, after 779 days of imprisonment, to ‘punish’ her husband Santino Di Matteo who had decided to collaborate with justice. Over 40 mobsters were convicted of this horrific murder, including the former boss Giovanni Brusca, who strangled the child he had seen growing up with his own hands. Giuseppe Di Matteo was kidnapped at the age of 12 on November 23, 1993 by a commando of mafiosi disguised as Dia policemen, while he was at the stables, his great passion. The fake policemen told him that they would take him to his father, who had been transferred to a protected location after the decision to collaborate with the law. “At the beginning he screamed: ‘my dad, my love'”, he told the court. repentant Gaspare Spatuzza, asking for forgiveness. “Then we tied him up like an animal and left him in the box. He was crying, we went back because what little humanity we still had came out of us,” Spatuzza said. “The boy called us saying he had to go to the bathroom but it wasn’t true. He was just scared. So we went back to reassure him and told him we would see each other again tomorrow, but we never saw him again.” The baby was taken around Sicily, in different places. Palermo, Trapani, Agrigento and Caltanissetta. Then, when the bosses realized that his father, Santino Di Matteo, would never retract, they killed him. Weakened by the long imprisonment, Joseph died immediately. First they tightened a rope around his neck, then dissolved him in acid. Here is the chilling story of the repentant Vincenzo Chiodo of the last moments of the child’s life: “I told the child to get into a corner, that is, near the bed, almost at the foot of the bed, with his arms raised and his face to the wall. Then the child, as I said, stood face to the wall. I went from behind and put the rope around his neck. a strong jolt, I pulled him back and placed him on the ground. Enzo Brusca got on top of his arms and nailed him in this way (he crosses his arms) and Monticciolo got on the child’s legs to prevent him from moving. moment of the assault that I threw the child away and Monticciolo was already starting to hold his legs, he says ‘I’m sorry’ to the child ‘your dad has been a cuckold’ (…) the child did not understand anything, why not if he waited for her, he did not expect anything and then the baby or he wasn’t… as I mean, he didn’t have the reaction of a child, he seemed limp… “. (by Elvira Terranova)