Giovanna Adinolfi she is a tenacious, stubborn, and stubborn woman. For over thirty years near his father. In these decades he had learned not to let mud, innuendo, baseless suspicion pollute his love or his existence. He chose a rare form resistance: sweetness, dignity, coherence.
Today Giovanna is the person, she is sure, her father wanted her to be. And this keeps him “on track”, as he himself says, despite facing the cruellest of tests: one disappearance without body, without tomb, without truth. No clues, no trials, no sentences. His father had disappeared into nothingness.
The judge who illuminates the dark side of money
Paolo Adinolfi is a civil judge. He doesn’t deal with murders, drug trafficking or mafia mafia investigations. No he has a companion. Yet he is considered one of the first judges to touch directly on the most opaque areas of criminal capitalism: recycling.
In front of him, another man from the institution, a lawyer Giorgio Ambrosolihad been murdered for obstructing the interests of the mafia and the financial economy. Adinolfi ideally falls into this the same line: the judge who does not catch murderers and does not look for fugitives, but illuminates the path of money, brings the law back to ill-gotten gains, opens the “closet” where no one wants to look.
He said it himself: “In Rome there is the Camorra and no one realizes it“. The goal is clear: to retrieve all the forgotten archives, obscure stories, half-finished events. Among other things, also from Fiskoma failure in 1992 who, according to investigators, had contacts with criminal circles and the Banda della Magliana. But that wasn’t the only document he worked on. “I never remember my father being on holiday”, said Giovanna today in an interview with Corriere della Sera.
Excavations beneath the House of Jazz
Among the many sadnesses in this story, there is also the sadness that occurred during the recent excavation underground Jazz Housebuilding that once belonged to him Enrico Nicolettimagnate Magliana Band. Excavations were launched to search for human remains, including, possibly, judge Adinolfi.
But it’s not family have been notified. “We found out about it from the newspapers, or rather from friends who had read it before us. Nobody warned us“, said Giovanna in the interview. According to an old rumor that reached the family at dinner”important people” he would say: “Paolo knew exactly where he was: under Enrico Nicoletti’s house“.
Mrs. Giovanna presents a openNicoletti himself was questioned and the excavation continued. But the soil was too porous and the search was stopped. Even today, another phrase attributed to Nicoletti, reported by those present, remains in Giovanna’s memory: “I know he wants to know where Adinolfi is, but I won’t tell him“. A provocation? A threat? Or a half-spoken truth? No way know it.
The severity of the suspicion
As if that weren’t enough, at the beginning of the disappearance someone actually tried to do it muddy judge. Giovanna remembered a phrase her family would never forget: at the police station, someone said that “maybe he ran away with a Brazilian dancer“. A real hypothesis, touch onwhich expresses the difficulty, or desire, not to look in the most uncomfortable directions: namely dirty money, criminal ties, underground interests. Even today, incredibly, Paolo Adinolfi is not officially considered a victim mafia.
Research that doesn’t stop
Giovanna doesn’t know what happened to her father, but she is sure: no will never stop to look for it. Every clue, every clue, every testimony is for him part of the truth. To think of not having a grave to cry on, a place to bring flowers, a point to begin mourning, is to live dependently. It means facing losses that never become real, cannot be processed.
But Joanna continues. With the same sweetness and strength her father taught her. With the same tenacity as he sought the truthwardrobe”Full of dust and silence.
A story that demands answers
The loss of Paolo Adinolfi continues to be one open wound not only for his family, but also for Italian justice.
This is the story of a judge who perhaps touched too open a wire, about a man left alonefrom institutions that are unwilling, or able, to see.
This is also the story of a princess who, since 1994, lives between hope and pain, between love and absence. A story that, after more than thirty years, still asks for just one thing: truth.
