An evidentiary accident to hear the collaborator of justice Maurizio Avola. To ask the judge for preliminary investigations, as part of the investigation into the murder of the magistrate Antonino Scopellitiwere the defenders of the same repentance, the lawyers Ugo Colonna and Massimo Alosi.
Once heard the opinion of the DDA of Reggio Calabria, if the investigating judge were to accept the request of the two lawyers, the repentant Avola could be questioned in the classroom regarding his participation in the crime and should answer not only the prosecutor’s questions Giuseppe Lombardo and the prosecutor Sara Parozzan But also to those of the lawyers of the other 20 suspects believed to be the leaders of Cosa Nostra Catanese and the Gotha of the ‘Ndrangheta Reggina.
The murder of judge Antonino Scopelliti took place on 9 August 1991 in Villa San Giovanni, in the hamlet of Piale. According to Avola’s statements, the latter would have guided the bike that joined the deputy prosecutor of the Cassation while driving his car. Vincenzo Salvatore Santapaola would have been fire with a rifle that the repentant would then buried in Belpasso, in the province of Catania, and found to find the mobile team in 2019.
Initially the suspects were 24 but in the last three years of them they died: the boss of Castelvetrano Matteo Messina Denaro, The boss of Archi Giovanni Tegano And Francesco Romeobrother -in -law of one of the leaders of Cosa Nostra, Benedetto Santapaola called “Nitto”. However, the father of the alleged material executor, however, cannot be proceeded because, for the murder Scopelliti, he was acquitted in a previous process.
The request for the evidentiary accident of the lawyers of Avola also concerns another collaborator of Sicilian justice, Fabio Tranchina that he would accompany Giuseppe Gravianonot investigated in this investigation, in Giardini Naxos where he spent a period of hiding in an accommodation procured by the “Catania”.