Roberta Siragusa, the bruises, the isolation and the fights of the 17-year-old who died in Caccamo- Corriere.it

Like those pictures that are formed by connecting the dots, one after the other. Point number one: Roberta who has known Pietro, for more than a year. Point that closes the drawing: his body at the bottom of the cliff, “among bushes with thorns” and “numerous waste”.
The drawing was a femicide. The points to focus on were his presumed domination, his growing isolation, underestimated signals by families, violence confused with conflict, possession exchanged for love, those “very strong jealousies” on which the judge writes to reconstruct the facts. A classic, so to speak, of the stories of murdered women that we have told many, too many times.

Behaviors

Roberta Siragusa he was 17 years old. The last day it saw the light was Saturday, January 23. And, that same day began a narrative of evil that tried (in vain) to turn him, his nineteen-year-old boyfriend, Pietro Morreale, into a not too executioner executioner. Not the violence as an option, not her story, which is considered completely improbable, not the unspeakable gestures those two slaps or that black eye of Roberta told by witnesses. No.
Instead of all this – and unfortunately it is once again a classic – there are (even now) minimizing and justifying behaviors that were supposedly sentinels of his “very strong attitude towards crime”, as the judge says. There is a mother and a father who want to believe their version at any cost. There are her own words: “It wasn’t me, she got out of the car, set herself on fire and threw herself down the stairs.” And then the signals not even caught by her mother, Iana, when she says yes, the two of them argued from time to time “but they were physiological fights.”

The details

Here. So a week after “it wasn’t me,” the script for this story says otherwise. The details speak of a boy moved “by a morbid feeling” that creates a void around him. Roberta begins her relationship with him and “for his sake” drops out of the high school and dance school she loved so much. Roberta stays away from friends and only hangs out when he is there too. Roberta overlooks the black eye immortalized in a photograph found on her WhatsApp profile. She doesn’t react to the two slaps he gives her because he takes a joint out of her mouth and throws it away. Roberta doesn’t listen to friends who try to warn her about her aggressive attitudes. Sometimes the two argue even in front of each other’s parents, but no one takes such fights seriously. “Silly fights”, to put it with her mother, Antonella. Violent attitudes considered of little importance. For example, the time he reacted badly because “she teased him with pinching.” Pietro’s mother says that on that occasion she had also discussed it with Roberta’s mother: all clear, the girl had “admitted” that she had “provoked” the reaction of her son.