Giuseppe Greco will soon be questioned again by the prosecutor Paolo Martinelli, of the Naples North Prosecutor's Office who is investigating the fatal robbery in Villaricca in which the two bandits Ciro Chirollo and Domenico Romano lost their lives.
The version of events provided by the 26-year-old from Marano does not convince the investigators at all, also in light of the fact that the young man has a wound on his hand compatible with a violent impact (even though he claimed that he had been robbed not only of his Rolex but also of his Smart and therefore he was not driving) and of the investigative certainty that neither of the two dead bandits was actually driving the car. An important turning point in the investigation could come in the next few days from the autopsy that will be performed on the bodies of the two victims.
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At the moment no video surveillance camera, not even private ones, has captured the moment of impact between the Smart presumably driven by 26-year-old Giuseppe Greco and the Tmax scooter with the two offenders originally from Sant'Antimo on board, Ciro Chirollo, 30, and Domenico Romano, 40, who died in the accident. This is what emerges from the investigations of the Carabinieri who are trying to shed light on what happened two nights ago in Marano, in Via Antica Consolare Campana: Greco is being investigated for voluntary homicide because the investigators, also from the analysis of the state of the places, believe that the hypothesis is well founded that it was he who rammed Chirollo and Romano after being robbed by them of the expensive Rolex he was wearing on his right wrist.
GRECO'S VERSION DOES NOT CONVINCE THE INVESTIGATORS
To the PM of Napoli Nord, Paolo Martinelli, who questioned him for eight hours, the 26-year-old Greco, defended by the lawyer Domenico Della Gatta, said that he was not the one who ran them over. The young man said that he had been robbed of his watch and then also of his car, and added that he had seen a dark Japanese model car that was perhaps waiting for the robbers. And finally that he had returned home thanks to a lift from a 16-year-old on a scooter, of whom he was unable to provide precise information and whom the carabinieri have not yet traced. Also for this reason, Greco's version does not convince the investigators, who however remain very cautious about a dynamic whose reconstruction is made even more difficult by the lack of images: other confirmations will have to be found.
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“I was returning home,” Greco said, as reported by his lawyer, “when I saw myself being chased by a Tmax scooter, with two people on board; one of the two, the passenger, grabbed a gun and shouted several times to give him the Rolex, otherwise he would kill me. At that point I stopped, then the bandit managed to put his arm in the partially open window, which then lowered, and hit me on the right arm with the butt of the gun, forcing me to hand over the watch and 200 euros; the bandit then also took the car and fled with his accomplice on the scooter. At that point I was scared and bloody, luckily a boy on a scooter who I know by sight passed by, stopped and helped me; I went around the area with him, discovering pieces of the bodywork of my Smart and the two bodies nearby a kilometer further on. So I had someone drive me home and then went to the carabinieri.”
'the one with the gun threatened to kill me'
During the interrogation, Greco described in great detail the moment of the robbery, but was less precise about what happened afterwards. The 26-year-old did not immediately speak about the minor who helped him – he did so only after the investigators showed him an image, taken from video surveillance cameras of private buildings, which portrayed him after the fact riding a scooter – nor about a dark car that he said was perhaps waiting for the two bandits, and which was responsible for the accident. In this case too, he reported the circumstance at a later time, and for now there is no trace of this car. In any case, the dynamics of the road accident convinced the investigators to investigate Greco; one of the bandits was near the scooter, the other a little further ahead near Greco's Smart, in positions compatible with a ramming that would have made them fall while they were on the vehicle. It does not seem credible that one of the two, as reported by the 26-year-old, was driving the Smart, given that the car hit a wall, but not so violently as to cause the occupant to be thrown out of the passenger compartment.
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