It was a revenge of the ‘ndrangheta hatched for 40 years the murder of Giuseppe Gioffrèthe 77 -year -old pensioner who on 11 July 2004 was killed with gunshots in a garden in front of his home in San Mauro Torinese.
This is the reconstruction of the public prosecution in the judicial case that came into the examination of the Court of Assizes of Appeal of the Piedmontese capital, where today the PG Marcello Tatangelo asked for confirmation of the sentences of thirty years in prison pronounced at first instance for the two defendants. In the sixties Gioffrè managed a resale of food in Sant’Eufemia di Aspromonte (Reggio Calabria), who disturbed the commercial activities of a local club, and during a quarrel killed two people. While serving the sentence in prison his wife and son were killed.
Once he returned to freedom, he moved to the province of Turin from 1976, where he remarried and found employment. A few months after his murder, a first suspect was arrested, then sentenced to 21 years. In 2022 the investigations were reopened and corroborated by the use of new IT systems and by the examination of the DNA on a bottle found near a car that the killers had given on fire. The two defendants today are Giuseppe Crea and Paolo Alvarowhich at first instance had been judged separately and whose position was brought together by the Court of Assizes of Appeal. The PG Tatangelo declared the decision to grant generic mitigating people “not acceptable”.