Due to a notification defect, the DDA of Reggio Calabria postponed the “Biological not repeatable technical investigations” to 4 June which were scheduled for today as part of the investigation into the murder of the judge Antonino Scopelliti, Assassinated on August 9, 1991 in Piale, a hamlet of Villa San Giovanni.
The notice, signed by the prosecutor Giuseppe Lombardo and from the prosecutor of the DDA Sara Parozzanhad been notified in recent days to the suspects, many of whom detained, and to the family members of the killed judge, as offended parties. Some notifications, however, have not been successful so that the District Anti -Mafia Directorate commissioned the secretariat of the Requiet Office and the Reggio Calabria mobile team to communicate the new date In which, in the laboratories of the regional scientific police cabinet, the magistrates will confer the position to a expert, with the faculty for the suspects “to appoint their technical consultants to participate in the operations”.
Only afterwards will we understand when real operations materially begin. Initially there were 24 suspects but in the last three years of them they died, the boss of Castelvetrano Matteo Messina Denarothe boss of Archi Giovanni Tegano and Francesco Romeobrother -in -law of one of the leaders of Cosa Nostra, Benedetto Santapaola. The latter also appears in the list of suspects but we cannot proceed against him because, for the murder Scopelliti, he was acquitted in a previous trial.
The other 20 subjects on which the Prosecutor is investigating on charges of murder are The leaders of the Catania mafia and the Gotha of the ‘Ndrangheta.
After the technical investigations of 21 March 2019 on the rifle buried in Belpasso, in the province of Catania, and found by the collaborator of justice Maurizio Avolaand after the judicial experiment carried out on 8 and 9 April on the place of the crime, where the police reported the magistrate’s car to reconstruct, after 34 years, the dynamics of the ambush, the DDA must proceed “to technical investigations that are not repeated biological and useful for comparison with the results of the further investigations carried out on the parts of the BMW car, conducted by the doctor Antonino Scopelliti at the event criminal ».
It is still not clear whether the assessment, which must be carried out by the prosecutor’s expert, It concerns a digital imprint, a trace of blood or other biological material, as is not clear whether this new element, which must be compared with other biological materialhas been found on the vehicle, preserved in recent years by the family and today “in kidnapping”, or on the rifle made underground by the repentant Avola.