PIACENZA – “Come with us”. “Where is it?”. “In jail”. “But how in jail?”. The carabinieri della Levante cried when the financiers of Piacenza threw them out of bed at dawn on Wednesday, holding the order for precautionary custody signed by the investigating judge Luca Milani, to bring them to prison in Cremona. They cried because “we never imagined going to this point”, we “never pocketed a euro”. They cried, probably, because for the first time it was clear how another terrible story had just begun in their lives.
The gang of criminals in uniform and the shadow of an alliance with the clans
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For this reason, investigators expect at least some of the arrested carabinieri – Angelo Esposito, Salvatore Cappellano, Daniele Spagnolo, Giacomo Falanga – to be able to decide to cooperate with the investigations in the guarantee interrogations. And tell everything they know about the Levante barracks. “They don’t have many alternatives,” notes an investigator. The investigation is very solid, there are thousands of pages on the record between wiretapping, photographs and environmental captures. Collaboration is then the only path traced by the general command which has also started an internal investigation, parallel to that of the Piacenza prosecutor and military magistrates. Among those arrested, the only one who continued to have a calm attitude was Giuseppe Montella, the person around whom the whole history of the Levante revolves. His lawyer, Emanuele Solari, met him. But wait until tomorrow, when the guarantee questioning takes place, to decide what steps to take. It will be important to understand even if the other arrested – the three Giardino brothers, above all, in business with Montella for drug dealing – want to provide useful elements for the investigation. The goal of the prosecutor Grazia Pradella is also to understand if there have been other episodes, such as those reconstructed by the investigations, in which the carabinieri committed abuses of power and unjustly arrested men and women. “We have to know if there are innocent people in prison.” The interrogations of the next 24 hours will help to write, perhaps, other pieces of this story.
