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The death of the 35-year-old, which shocked the world

2026-09-12 17:45:02Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

The death of the 35-year-old, which shocked the world

A woman who testified against her father after her mother was killed in a notorious mafia murder in Italy is believed to have taken her own life.

Denise Cosco was found in critical condition on Sunday and later died in hospital in Rome.

Her mother, Lea Garofalo, who was murdered in 2009, became a powerful symbol of resistance to the mafia after becoming a state witness against the 'Ndrangheta clan in southern Italy.

Cosco's relatives remember her courage to speak out at her father's trial, but also her extraordinary struggle in the years that followed.

At the age of 35, she died at the same age her mother was when she was killed.

Enza Rando, a senator and anti-mafia lawyer who represented Cosco in the murder trial, described her death as “a deep wound for the entire country” and as proof that the mafia not only kills, but creates “real monsters in the lives and souls” of those who survive.

Francesca Rispoli, co-president of the anti-mafia organisation Libera, said the death highlighted the struggle experienced by many people breaking away from organised crime.

"The Mafia is not just a physical thing. You can leave. You can change your name," she told the BBC. "But there is still a connection, a family connection, that remains... deep inside and it is impossible to overcome."

Cosco, like her mother, had lived under state protection with a new name and identity for many years.

But Rispoli said she was left extremely vulnerable and that in recent years she had reconnected with her father, Carlo Cosco, in prison because, despite everything, she had felt a "void in her life".

Friends say she struggled with mental health issues and addiction.

"Maybe this is a sign that those trying to make a new life need more support. Not just for a year – maybe for their whole lives," Rispoli argued, while organized crime groups in Italy – especially the 'Ndrangheta – involve tightly knit family networks.

In Cosco's case, both her mother's and her father's families had ties to the mafia.

She had always refused to believe her father's story that her mother had abandoned her to start a new life in Australia.

In fact, he had tricked Garofalo into going on a date, then had strangled her, dismembered her body, and then burned it.

Several years later, a statement from one of the killers finally enabled the police to find several bone fragments and a pendant, which Cosco identified.

At a public funeral in 2013, she spoke of her mother's courage in "putting herself at risk... for justice for all."

Her father and three accomplices were already serving life sentences in prison.

At trial, Cosco described herself as a “proud witness for justice” and said she had made the difficult choice to testify – speaking from behind a screen – because she wanted the “inner freedom to start over” with her life.

Prosecutors have now opened an investigation to determine whether there was any incitement to suicide and her phone has been seized for analysis.

Friends and supporters were expected to gather in Milan on Friday evening to remember her near the spot where her mother was kidnapped.

“Denisa's entire life revolved between two extremes: courage and suffering,” wrote Luigi Ciotti, Libera's president, calling it a difficult balance.

“Today, something in that fragile balance was broken forever.” ( BBC )


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