The bis trial for the murder of Marco Puntorieri, the 41 -year -old victim of Lupara Bianca in 2011, ended with an acquittal. At the end of the abbreviated rite, the Reggio Calabria Gup Stefania Rachele has acquitted “for not having committed the fact” Edoardo Mangiola, 45 years old, accused of having been the principal of the crime accrued inside the book gang.
Near the mafia family of Cannavò, Puntorieri had been seized, killed with some gunshots in the head and his corpse made disappear. The motive of the assassination would be to be related to a revenge for internal contrasts of the clan whose two material executors would have been part of both the two materials, Domenico Ventura and Natale Cuzzolaalready sentenced to life prison in the first trial. 11 years after the crime, in July 2022 the DDA had closed the investigations on Edoardo Mangiola who, according to the accusatory system, – reads the charge – “was affixed near the place where the murder was consumed, taking up, also directly through a mobile camera, some essential phases of the action”. They provided evident evidence to be paid by only the Ventura for the murder ». “Refined criminal project” that, to redesign the organizational balance of the Libri gang, “provided for the physical elimination of the point and that by the judicial hand of Ventura”.
A thesis contested in the classroom by Mangiola’s defender, the lawyer Francesco Calabrese according to which there is no specific element from the investigation that demonstrates a moral or material competition in the murder. Also, Land statements of the various collaborators of justice were absolutely generic and unsuitable to outline a profile of responsibility “. Hence the acquittal ordered by the GUP after the council chamber.