The second-degree trial for the murder of Nada Cella, the young secretary killed in accountant Marco Soracco's office on 6 May 1996 in Chiavari, will begin on 18 January before the Genoa Court of Assizes of Appeal. For the long-unsolved crime, former teacher Annalucia Cecere was convicted in January in the first-degree trial to 24 years in prison for murder aggravated by futile motives. According to the Court of Assizes that convicted Cecere, the woman acted out of "social envy," in a "sudden impulse," because she was envious of girls from the hinterland, such as Nada herself, "contemptuously referred to as 'peasants' who, unlike her, managed to establish themselves in their work, achieving financial security that was denied to her and greatly coveted."
Cecere was jealous of Nada and furious with her because — as her employer had instructed her — she did not put through his calls to Marco Soracco. A crime therefore without a true motive, but stemming from the defendant's personality. In addition to the defendants Cecere (defended by Giovanni Roffo and Gabriella Martini) and Soracco (convicted to two years for aiding and abetting and represented by lawyer Andrea Vernazza), the Genoa prosecutor's office itself has also filed an appeal, seeking to have the aggravating circumstance of cruelty recognised against Cecere as well.
Deputy prosecutor Gabriella Dotto, who coordinated the new investigations by the mobile squad that led to the identification and subsequent conviction of Cecere, has requested to be "assigned" to the trial so as to be able to assist Deputy Prosecutor General Francesco Pinto, who will present the case for the prosecution.
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