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Ilaria Sula's murder/ The Filipino's mother didn't want him at home: He was distracting my son!

2025-04-05 12:55:58 / AKTUALITET ALFA PRESS

Ilaria Sula's murder/ The Filipino's mother didn't want him at

He didn't look at her favorably. So much so that he didn't even want her near the house. An attitude that, perhaps, was not only a consequence of a cultural mentality of Nors Mazlapan, Mark Samson's mother, but hid something deeper. A kind of hostility towards Ilaria Sula, the girl who for about a year frequented the small apartment of the Filipino family on Homs Street.

"I didn't want Mark to always bring Ilarian home. I was afraid it would distract him too much - my son needs to be focused on his studies," she told investigators.

These are the words of the mother of the young Filipino man currently in prison for the murder of the Albanian student, whose body was thrown into an abyss in the remote areas of Capranica Prenestina, after being stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend, right in the Samson family's apartment in the "Africano" neighborhood of Rome.

Just a flower for the murdered girl

As the days pass, the position of Mark's mother - a young architecture graduate who has pleaded guilty, but with many contradictions - is becoming increasingly central to the investigation. She and her husband, Rik Samson, risk being investigated for complicity in premeditated murder and concealment of a body.

Tensions are also rising in the neighborhood, in the large Filipino community. Uncle Emilio fled on a scooter as soon as he saw the journalists, even those from the Philippines who have begun to take an interest in an issue that quickly went beyond the boundaries of Rome's Ring Road (Grande Raccordo Anulare). But where Ilaria was killed, there is only one flower – a pink carnation.

"I was sleeping. I didn't understand anything. The next day I left the house," the woman, a housewife with several health problems, is said to have said during questioning by the criminal police, led by investigator Roberto Pititto. So far, this has been the only and first questioning session with her, but the possibility of it being repeated is not ruled out.

There is skepticism about the versions given by the woman and her husband, who works as a domestic helper in a family north of Rome.

"We were at home, we knew the girl was with Mark"

“On the night of March 25, we were both at home. We knew that Ilaria had come to visit Mark,” they also claimed in the last hours. However, the father had previously said that he had gone out and had not returned until the next day. So, two weeks after the murder, the parents of the victim’s ex-boyfriend have still not been able to clearly explain what they did during those 24 hours and what their role was in their son’s actions: to kill a girl locked in his room, then – during the day – to put the body in a suitcase, after wrapping it in a plastic bag, load it into the family car – on the road, not in a garage – and take it to throw it into a ravine 40 kilometers from Rome.

"No screams, no noise"

“We didn’t hear any noise, no screams from Mark’s room,” the parents also told the police. Perhaps this is the only version that can be trusted, since all the residents of building number 8 and those in the building opposite – many of whom are Filipinos, including Uncle Emilio – have also claimed that they didn’t hear any screams from the Samson family’s apartment, which is located on the ground floor.

For everything else, suspicions against Nors and Rik Samson are considered more than justified, also due to the fact that it seems very difficult to believe that Mark committed this entire crime alone. Now the relationship between the mother and her son's ex-girlfriend is also under the scrutiny of investigators.

Mark's mother's jealousy towards Ilaria

More than ordinary conflicts, it is about a silent hostility towards the daughter, perhaps related to the mother's religious beliefs.

Of course, it could be seen as normal parental behavior – a mix of protection and jealousy for her son – but perhaps there was something more, which also came to light during her interrogation. Investigators are now trying to understand whether this feeling directly influenced what happened in the 23-year-old's room, where, despite careful cleaning, Ilaria's blood was found.

She was stabbed in the neck, in surprise or perhaps in her sleep, by someone behind her, with a knife that has not yet been found. In the next room, in those few square meters, Nors and her husband say they were sleeping peacefully.

 

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