The magistrates of the Public Prosecutor’s Office directed by the prosecutor Giuseppe Verzera, substitutes Emanuela Scali and Luca Gorgoneat the end of intense investigative activities, requested the investigating judge to dismiss four farmers who have been under investigation since 7 November 2022, against whom the complicity in murder and destruction of a corpse, for the disappearance and suppression of the young farmer from Barcelona, Salvatore Chiofalomade to disappear at the age of 32 on the morning of 27 August 2016 on the heights of the city, where in the Migliardo district only the carcass of his Toyota off-road vehicle was found by the police.
The car set on fire by the same authors of the atrocious crime classified, due to the methods used, as a “white gun”. In fact, the young man’s body has not been found so far. The reasons for the new request for dismissal are not yet known, which the victim’s family members, defended by the lawyer Giuseppe Lo Presti, have already announced that they will oppose.
The investigations were reopened following the opposition presented by the same lawyer, defender of the victim’s family members as new investigative elements would have emerged, as well as errors in transcription of telephone interceptions.And.
In fact, thanks to the defense investigations carried out with the aid of a sound consultant, dialogues which in the first phase of the investigations had been hastily classified as “incomprehensible” were identified, so much so that new scenarios would have emerged relating to the last hours in which Salvatore Chiofalo was seen still alive. It is no coincidence that thanks to the new traces that emerged following additional investigations, the routes and movements that the farmers themselves would have made in those days would have been reconstructed.
According to what was later hypothesized, the Prosecutor’s Office itself sent the 4 suspects a notice to appear for questioning as suspects and therefore under investigation, on the hypothesis of having participated in the kidnapping and suppression of the body of the young farmer who had also lent money for which he requested the refund.