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Pollica (Sa). “We are finally starting to see the faces of Mayor Vassallo’s killers, including the faces of the deviant institutions. If finally, fourteen years after the crime of the mayor of Acciaroli, Angelo Vassallo, the nameless faces of his murderers begin to be deciphered and, with horror, we find among the faces of the alleged murderers the confirmation of what we had always suspected and reported, i.e. the full involvement of unsuspected men from the institutions, is first and foremost thanks to the tireless commitment of Mayor Vassallo’s family, and in particular of his brothers Dario and Massimo, so that the truth, even the most difficult and unspeakable, comes out in the open sunlight”. This is what he writes the former Anti-Mafia prosecutor and lawyer of the Vassallo Foundation, Antonio Ingroia on the arrests this morning of four people accused in various capacities of having contributed to the murder of the fisherman mayor of Pollica, Angelo Vassallo, on the evening of 5 September 2010. Ending up in prison were the Carabinieri officer Fabio Cagnazzo, the repentant Romolo Ridosso, the entrepreneur Giuseppe Cipriano and the former carabiniere Lazzaro Ciffi.
“As their defender of the offended party, I wrote in the request to reopen investigations, presented in 2021 to the Anti-Mafia District Attorney’s Office of Salerno against Col. Cagnazzo, now arrested but then closed, that the Vassallo crime had to be reconstructed as a criminal action of Camorra style facilitated, however, both before and after the crime, and probably in its execution itself, by a deviant and corrupt part of the institutions, with particular reference to the position of Colonel Cagnazzo and Marshal Cioffi, but not only. In short, an unholy criminal cooperation deriving from interests and illicit affairs managed in common. Today, after years of in-depth investigations, carried out in the absolute and most impenetrable investigative secrecy, the Salerno Prosecutor’s Office arrives at the truth: the most uncomfortable and bitter one for the involvement of unfaithful servants of the State in the assassination of a just and good public man like the Mayor “fisherman” Angelo Vassallo – dice Ingroia – We were right – adds the lawyer who thanks the Salerno judiciary – The deepest and broadest appreciation for the seriousness and courage shown by the Salerno Anti-Mafia District Prosecutor’s Office in carrying out these investigations and in drawing the necessary consequences. For our part, we will continue to give our contribution, ready to act as a civil party when the process starts.”
