New hearing today in front of the Assize Court of the Como Court of the Trial instructed against the alleged principals of the kidnapping of Cristina Mazzottitaken on the gate of the family home in Eupilio (Como) on June 30, 1975 and found dead on the following September 1st in a landfill of Galliate (Novara). The Court ordered the acquittal due to the death of the offender of Giuseppe Morabito, 80 years old, born in Africo (Reggio Calabria) but residing in Tradate (Varese), who died from illness at the end of last November, on the trial already started.
Giuseppe Calabrò remain on the defendants’ counter74 years old, Reggio di San Luca residing in Bovalino (Reggio Calabria) called “u duturicchiu”, Antonio Talia73, of Africo (Reggio Calabria), and the Reggio Demetrio Latella71, called “Luciano”, residing in the Novarese, the man one whose fingerprint was found on the bodywork of the Mini on which Cristina traveled on the evening of kidnapping.
Today’s hearing had as its protagonist the repentant of ‘Ndrangheta Antonino Cuzzola, 72 years old, who in the prison of Porto Azzurro, between 1976 and 1977, had the opportunity to share a detention period with Franco Gattini, the “cashier” That on behalf of the gang of kidnappers pocketed the redemption of one billion and 50 million lire paid by the girl’s father when, in reality, Cristina was already dead. In Gattini, Cuzzola remembered, the girl’s jailer, Giuliano Angelini, also sent he was also sent to Porto Azzurro, added after a few months. «To me and to the kittens, Angelini said that the girl rebelled and shouted, then he went to the pharmacy and bought a boccetta of Valium that put them in the water, and then of the calming padsbut you can see that He gave her too many. And the girl died». Of the possible role of instigators who attribute to the defendants, the witness has not been able to say anything. We return to the classroom next Wednesday with other witnesses of the accusation.