“Truth and justice are also for Fabio Cagnazzo». There were Carabinieri generals, as well as fellow officers and soldiers Army soldiers yesterday morning at the front flash mob judicial fortress of Salerno to express solidarity with Colonel Cagnazzo when a preliminary hearing was underway in the courtroom to decide whether to send him to trial, on charges of sophistry, along with the former carabiniere Lazzaro Cioffito entrepreneurs Giuseppe Cipriano and to former justice collaborators Romolo Ridoso accused in various capacities of having participated in the organization of the assassination of the mayor of Pollica Angelo Vassallo and also with Giovanni Cafierothe only one accused of drug trafficking.
And while outside the courthouse, friends, relatives and carabiniere colleagues demonstrated as a sign of solidarity, at the trial deputy prosecutor Elena Guarinothe head of the investigation, calling for everyone to be tried, also expressed his dissent to the demonstration: “If anyone believes they are being unfairly accused, come and defend yourself in the courtroom.” And in the courtroom yesterday, escorted by former Carabinieri colleagues while he is under house arrest, was Lazzaro Cioffi.
Vassallo murder, flash mob in Salerno for accused carabiniere Fabio Cagnazzo
Demonstration
At the forefront, behind the banner, the sister of the officer under investigation, Donatella Cagnazzo. About one hundred and fifty people expressed “solidarity with Cagnazzo and full confidence in his innocence”, but at the same time also “demanded truth and justice for Angelo Vassallo”. They also came from outside the region to support their colleagues, from Sicily, Lazio, Basilicata, Naples and the province of Salerno. “He was a carabiniere who fought against the Camorra – said a soldier who worked with him – the operations and arrests he carried out were for all to see.” And again: «We are absolutely convinced of Fabio’s innocence, he was the first to ask for justice not only for himself but also for Mayor Vassallo because he was a person in authority in the institution, he was a Carabinieri colonel who arrested hundreds of fugitives and it is impossible for him to be a scapegoat in this case». The Vassallo family doesn’t like flash mobs; The Fisherman Mayor’s son, Antonio, commented: “The picture this morning (yesterday, Ed) is not good.”
In the classroom
Salerno prosecutor’s office, represented in the courtroom by prosecutors Elena Guarino He therefore called for all suspects to be tried despite realizing that “it will be a painful trial, for many reasons” and then listed them. Starting from the fact that fifteen years have passed to partially reconstruct what happened. He later spoke of Angelo Vassallo as a “lonely man”. A solitude, he underlines, that accompanied him in life “when he fought alone”, when he was killed and even after his death “because a wall of silence was built”.
Vassallo murder, flash mob in Salerno for accused carabiniere Fabio Cagnazzo
Hence the appeal launched by the prosecutor’s office through aggressive prosecutors: “Whoever knows, speak up, our door is always open to the truth.” An appeal was made to both institutional officials and friends of the victims and residents. For Silverio Sicafamily lawyer Vassallo – his wife and children joined in the defense along with his colleagues Dario Barbirotti – «this crime is destined to remain unresolved not only because the walls of silence are being erected but also because important institutions are being undermined». And again: «This is just the tip of the iceberg of a very complicated story where legality and crime meet: drug trafficking and the murder of Angelo Vassallo are just a detail of a wider story». Yesterday, after the prosecutor’s request, this word was conveyed to the civil service. The trial was then adjourned until December 12 when defense attorneys will discuss: Ilaria Criscuolo, Agostino De Caro, Giovanni Annunziata, Michele Avino.
