 Giovanbattista Cutolo, the boy killed in Naples in Piazza Municipio – Photo: Orchestra Filarmonica Campana OFC |
by Veronica Ronza*
NAPLES NEWS: A degenerated argument over parking a scooter: this is the reason that would have pushed someone to point a gun at Giovanbattista Cutolo, the 24-year-old boy killed at dawn in Naples, in Piazza Municipio.
Naples, Giovanbattista Cutolo: the boy killed in Piazza Municipio for a parking lot dispute.
A heinous murder took place in the early hours of the morning in the central Neapolitan square, a few steps from the Town Hall. The one who lost his life was Giovanbattista, a 24-year-old boy with no criminal record, resident in Mugnano, completely far from organised crime circles.
The boy was a musician, a member of the Scarlatti Camera Young Orchestra, and attended the horn class at the San Pietro a Majella Conservatory. Just a few weeks ago he had celebrated his birthday and at the time of the attack he was with his girlfriend.
The first suspect in the murder, identified and taken to the police station by the agents who intervened on the spot, is a 16-year-old boy. He allegedly argued with the victim about parking a scooter, inflicting a fatal gunshot on him.
A crime still to be reconstructed but which, according to the first rumours provided by Il Corriere del Mezzogiorno, would have occurred for futile reasons, for a discussion concerning the parking of the vehicle. All in front of a sandwich shop on the corner of via Cristoforo Colombo.
The insults would have passed to unheard-of violence, the one that cut short the life of the young musician forever. To raise the alarm, reporting the incident to the police, would have been Giovanbattista's girlfriend, witness of the terrible scene.
When the patrol arrived, however, the young man was already dead: his body lay lifeless on the ground. The investigators proceeded to acquire the footage of the video surveillance cameras to reconstruct the dynamics of the story. Further investigations will follow to clarify the dynamics of the tragedy that has shaken the entire citizenry.
“Today is a sad day, the horn player Giovanbattista Cutolo was killed in Naples for a badly parked scooter. The alleged killer is 16 years old. Giovanbattista had been with us in the last production of the orchestra, he was a young man with great prospects, trained and raised in the Scarlatti Young Orchestra” – reads the post released on social media by the Campana Philharmonic Orchestra.
“Hi Giovanbattista, this is how we will remember you, in the orchestra with your instrument to show your sensitivity, your passion, your work. We embrace the pain of the family and their loved ones by expressing our deepest condolences “.
First published at VesuvioLive Italy, August 31, 2023
*Graduate in communication from the University of Salerno. Devourer of books and passionate about writing.
The reactions:
The murder of Giovanbattista Cutolo moved the Neapolitan music scene, where he was known for his commitment.
“He was a talented horn player, with a clear and sincere, passionate and loving gaze towards his instrument, his life in the orchestra, being part of a community like that of Scarlatti. He was a boy who was always smiling, polite and respectful towards everyone, towards his work, towards music itself”, recalls Beatrice Venezi, director of the Nuova Orchestra Scarlatti.
“What have we become? Animals? No, animals do not kill out of cruelty, only out of necessity. We are scum. Where have the solidarity, empathy, sense of community that distinguished our Italian society gone? We are the shadow of ourselves, zombies who live only in the night of humanity. Empty bodies without souls”.
“A pain that leaves you breathless”, commented the Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano, who also citing the stabbing of a fifteen year old in an unrelated incident, observed that “we need to create the conditions, starting from school, from dialogue in the family and from the fundamental role of educators of parents, to overturn the culture of abuse and the use of violence between peers”.
The writer Maurizio De Giovanni also intervened on the tragedy: “it is not possible to remain silent in this situation: the children who lose their lives in our area are victims of a cultural tragedy”. “We have an obligation to create culture – argues the writer – the only antidote to these and other tragedies which unfortunately are multiplying in the summer of 2023”.
Reactions first published at Italy 24 Press News, August 31, 2023
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