The unrepeatable biological technical investigations have been entrusted this morning arranged by the DDA of Reggio Calabria as part of theInvestigation on the murder of judge Antonino Scopelliti. In particular, The investigations concern the BMW car radio on which the Cassation magistrate traveled when he was assassinated.
This is what emerged today during the assignment of the assignment to the Scientific Police of Reggio Calabria by the prosecutor Giuseppe Lombardo and the substitute of the DDA Sara Parezzan who are coordinating the investigations on crime consumed 34 years ago, on 9 August 1991 in Piale, a fraction of Villa San Giovanni.
The expert appointed by the Prosecutor was asked to “Check – reads the question – the presence of any biological traces And proceed to the consequent and any reliefs on the traces on the self -odi in seizure, useful both for the determination of the DNA profile and for ballistic purposes, to reconstruct the direction of the shots exploded “.
The assessment on the car radio will start materially tomorrow. When the scientific police complete the operation and deposit the information with the results, the District Anti -Mafia Directorate will have to compare them “With the further investigations in progress – the prosecutors write – in order to carry out a three -dimensional reconstruction of the crime scene, determine the dynamics of the murder action and reconstruct the trajectory of the exploded bullets”.
In the notice notified in recent days, lawyers emerged that The suspects were initially 24 but in the last three years of them they diedthe boss of Castelvetrano Matteo Messina Denaro, the boss of Archi Giovanni Tegano and Francesco Romeo, brother -in -law of one of the leaders of Cosa Nostra, Benedetto Santapaola called “Nitto”.
We cannot proceed against the latter because, for the murder Scopelliti, he was acquitted in a previous trial. His son, Vincenzo Salvatore Santapaola, appears among the 20 subjects investigated together with the top of Cosa Nostra Catania and the Gotha of the ‘Ndrangheta. According to the statements of the collaborator of justice Maurizio Avola, Vincenzo Salvatore Santapaola would have killed the magistrate with a rifle that the repentant would then buried in Belpasso, in the province of Catania.