More than sixteen years have passed since December 11, 2006, when Raffaella Castagna, her son Youssef Marzouk, her mother Paola Galli and her neighbor Valeria Cherubini were brutally murdered in the building at 25 via Diaz in Erba. The couple of neighbors, Olindo Romano and Rosa Bazzi, were accused of the crime and sentenced to life imprisonment.
“It was easy to fit two like us”
It is precisely Olindo Romano who speaks to Adnkronos once again professing his innocence and that of Rosa, stating: “I don’t know why the track of drug dealing has not been investigated, I still think it was easier to frame two people like us wide awake and unaware of what was coming upon us”. Then again: “I happen to think back to those days and how they duped and made fun of us so much that only when they took us to Bassone (the prison in Como, ed), did we realize that we were the suspects. Since then everything is absurd and continues to be unreal. I remember the quarrels from Raffaella and Azouz’s house well, they often quarreled, but that didn’t mean we thought of carrying out a massacre. And, in fact, we had nothing to do with it. Who did it I don’t know, otherwise I would have already told my lawyers, but certainly a similar massacre can only be done by those who are used to doing those things, I don’t think it’s easy to improvise such a heinous act”.
“Frigerio was used like us”
Then a reference also to Mario Frigerio, husband of Valeria Cherubini and the only survivor of the massacre: “Frigerio was used like us. I think back to that man, when I met him: he was a good person, which is why I think they manipulated his memories to make him testify against us. I consider him a victim like us”.
The distance from Rosa
Occasionally the spouses get together, as happened just before Christmas, as Romano told Adnkronos again: “It’s hard, but somehow life in prison goes on, I see Rosa as soon as possible. Two days before Christmas I went to talk to her in Bollate and I’m happy. The thought that sooner or later, I hope sooner than later, will be able to ascertain that we didn’t commit the Erba massacre”.
