Carabiniere killed. Widow Cerciello: murder does not go unpunished. The trial begins on Wednesday

2020-02-25T21:09:53.774Z

"Tomorrow is the seventh month of the barbaric murder of my husband Mario, a believer, valiant Carabiniere, who had dedicated his Christian life to the service of his neighbor and in particular of the least, murder that cannot and must not go unpunished". This was stated in a note by Maria Rosaria Esilio, wife of Vice-Brigadier Mario Cerciello Rega killed in Rome on 26 July last. The trial against American students Finnegan Lee Elder and Christian Gabriel Natale Hjort opens on Wednesday before the assize court. "Our story of young spouses - continues the widow - cut off by criminal hands, has moved the world, has shaken the consciences and disturbed the serenity of the many humble, simple people who hope in providence as the beloved Mario hoped, people who they have to compete every day with a minority that tends to poison society with heinous crimes. With Mario's death my family is gone too, because our unborn children and all our dreams also ended up in the grave, so that existence has been reduced to living on memories and imagining how extraordinary it would have been to live together ". Ms. Cerciello dedicates "to all those who have shown such sincere and moving solidarity in this very sad affair, my most sincere thanks go, while for Justice, not for revenge, I refer to the competence of the judiciary, investigators and lawyers but also to you journalists, because your words also depend on respect for the memory of Mario Cerciello Rega's heroic sacrifice, the burning flame of our history, fallen for all of us to defend the law ".