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"I couldn't live without her"/ Shocking details from the testimony of the 23-year-old who killed Ilaria Sula in Rome

Politiko 2025-04-08 17:17:09

"I couldn't live without her"/ Shocking details from the

New details have emerged from the testimony of Mark Antony Samson, the 23-year-old Filipino man who murdered 22-year-old Albanian woman Ilaria Sula in Rome. The young man told the court that he was willing to "fight at all costs" to win Ilaria back as his girlfriend, while describing their relationship as one with ups and downs, similar to any other young couple.

According to Samson's testimony, everything changed when Ilaria asked him, three months before the incident, to show her his university exam grades. This moment, he confessed, activated an old trauma that had haunted him since high school – performance anxiety in front of his parents.

The judge investigating the case explained that the two young people had met at work in 2023 and had started dating on April 30 of that year. However, the relationship began to deteriorate at the end of January 2025, when they decided to take a "break" that was never actually implemented, as they continued to meet.

Samson claimed that Ilaria's behavior was erratic – sometimes close, sometimes distant – and this had left him insecure. The situation worsened first when she threatened to leave him if he did not show her university grades, and then in early March, when she confessed to him that she had registered on a dating app.

"He was shocked... she wanted to go out alone with her friends, she was cooler," the judge's report states.

Despite warnings from friends to distance themselves from the relationship, the 23-year-old refused to break up and after committing the crime, he showed, according to the judge, "extremely controlled" behavior. He even continued his day normally, went to lunch with a friend of Ilaria's and talked about the problems in their relationship as if nothing had happened.

The judge further states that Samson began deceiving Ilaria's acquaintances, sending messages to her father and friends as if it were her, to create the idea that she was still alive.

The evidence against him is considered irrefutable. In addition to the numerous testimonies, the court also emphasizes the fact that the author's own mother has admitted that her son had disturbing behavior and severe emotional difficulties.

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