Electrocuted and charred. The remains of Fabio Angelo Pettinato, 34 years old, detained under house arrest, were found inside an electrical substation in Viale Crati in the Vaglio Lise neighborhood area between the railway station and the Civil Motorization Office.
The man was locked inside the structure and the metal entrance door was locked from the outside with a padlock.
It is a real “mystery”. difficult to resolve at the moment. The macabre discovery was made by Enel technicians who intervened to verify the causes of the fault that the area network reported starting from inside the cabin. The alarm was immediately raised to the police and firefighters. The Carabinieri of the provincial command were on site and carried out a series of investigations with the experts of the Scientific Department. The fingerprints present on the padlock and the entrance door and all the organic traces present in the small structure were isolated in an attempt to isolate genetic profiles useful for possible comparisons.
The victim, electrocuted by a high voltage electrical discharge, was subject to daily checks because he was subjected to domestic detention. The death, according to the first summary considerations made by the medical examiner who intervened on site, dates back to the night before the discovery.
But what was Pettinato doing in the electrical cabin? At the moment, many hypotheses are being taken into consideration: the certain thing for investigators is that he was not alone. After the fatal current discharge, the person or people who were in his company ran away, closing the door with the bolt. Was this an accident that happened by chance? Or is there something else? This is what the investigating magistrates directed by the prosecutor Antonio D’alessio are trying to understand. An autopsy has been carried out on Pettinato’s remains to verify whether there are traces of wounds caused by blunt force objects or gunshots. From an investigative point of view, the matter is in full evolution. Colonel Andrea Mommo’s carabinieri also acquired all the images shot by the video surveillance systems present in the area.
Copper thefts have occurred several times in the train station area in recent months. Metal is in fact a conductor of electricity (and more). Great pain among the victim’s family and friends who rushed to the scene after the discovery of the charred body. Cars were identified in the area and checks were carried out to establish the names of their owners. Pettinato had had legal problems in the past.
