The investigating judge of the Castrovillari Court has validated the arrest of Safeer Ahmed and Ali Raza, the two 31-year-old Afghan citizens accused of the multiple and aggravated murder of the four agricultural workers who died when they were burned alive inside a minivan in the countryside of Amendolara.
At the same time as the validation, the judge ordered precautionary custody in prison for the two suspects. Ahmed and Raza were then transferred and detained in the Castrovillari prison, where they had been taken immediately after their arrest on Monday morning by the Prosecutor’s Office at the end of a long nocturnal interrogation.
The Third Man Trail
Meanwhile, investigations continue to clarify every aspect of the matter. Investigators are verifying the possible presence of a third person who could have provided help to the two suspects. The survivor of the massacre, the 35-year-old Afghan Mohammad Taj Alamyar, would have spoken about the existence of this person, who would have indicated to the investigators a friend of the two arrested as a possible figure involved in the affair.
According to what emerges, the man has already been identified and interviewed by investigators. His position is now being examined by the Flying Squad and the Prosecutor’s Office, committed to reconstructing in detail the hours that preceded the fire that cost the lives of the four agricultural workers.
Listen to friends and acquaintances
Already on Monday evening, after the arrest of Ahmed and Raza, the State Police agents spoke to numerous friends and acquaintances belonging to the Afghan and Pakistani groups frequented by both the victims and the suspects. Among the people interviewed also included the survivor of the massacre and one of his compatriots who was not on board the minivan that day because he was ill.
For security reasons, all the members of the groups involved were subsequently removed from the towns in the Upper Ionian area of Cosenza where they resided, between Villapiana and Trebisacce, and transferred to another location. A measure adopted while investigative investigations continue into an affair that has profoundly shaken the entire territory.