The killed couple and the “away” killer. Umberto Pietrolungo, 58, from Cetraro, was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of having assassinated, in Vicenza, on February 25, 1991, the lawyer Pierangelo Fioretto and his wife, Mafalda Begnozzi. The Veneto civilian was curator of millionaire bankruptcies and had no direct relationship with the ‘Ndrangheta. The motive of the crime remained unknown. The responsibility of the Calabrian assassin was ascertained thanks to the fingerprints and the traces of genetic code detected on the surgical gloves and the gun used, to perform the double murder. The finds found at the time were after more than 30 years reviewed with modern analysis techniques by nailing the Cetrrarese. Pietrolungo – this is the hypothesis examined by the judiciary – was recruited by principals who remained without face to get rid of the Vicenza civilian unbulsed to compromise. The ‘ndrangheta sent him to shoot it. It wasn’t the first time. The history of the Calabrian mafia demonstrates it in an incontrovertible way.
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