They feared he wanted to avenge his father, killed by a killer in broad daylight nine years ago. And that's why he'd become engaged, first to the killer's daughter, then to the killer's niece.
A dramatic story emerges from the investigation that today led to the arrest of Tony Lipari , accused of the murder of mafia boss Giuseppe Di Giacomo , killed in 2014 in Palermo. The victim's son, a child at the time, witnessed the attack. He also gave investigators a brief description of the killer, whose face, however, was covered by a helmet.
By intercepting the killer's family, the Carabinieri have now discovered that the boy, now almost an adult, had begun a relationship with Lipari's daughter and then with her niece. This behavior was unusual for the killer's family, who feared the young man was seeking revenge.
And it was precisely by listening in on the Lipari men's conversations that the Carabinieri solved the mystery of Di Giacomo's murder. "Why didn't Tony kill that guy?" the killer's brother asks his wife, trying to figure out how to manage the relationship between the two young men.
"Did you understand that Tony killed him?" : the key to the murder of mafia boss Giuseppe Di Giacomo, killed in Palermo in 2014, lies in this sentence. "Did you understand that Tony killed him?" Salvatore Lipari , brother of Di Giacomo's killer Tony, said a year ago, unaware he was being wiretapped. He was arrested today and is now Tony's brother. For investigators, it's the long-sought squaring of the circle.
Tony Lipari, his brother says, was the one who shot the mafia boss, unaware that he was being interviewed by the Carabinieri. The instigator of the crime was Mafia boss Tommaso Lo Presti , who saw Di Giacomo as a formidable rival. The victim was vying with him for the role of head of the Porta Nuova district.
As a child, he witnessed the death of his father, the boss Giuseppe Di Giacomo, murdered in Palermo, in broad daylight nine years ago. He told investigators about the ambush and briefly described the perpetrator, who shot wildly with his face covered by a helmet. Growing up, he became engaged first to the killer's daughter, then to his niece.
Dangerous relationships that the killer's family tried to hinder in every way. And that, in the end, were the key that allowed the carabinieri to solve the mystery of the murder.
The Lipari family therefore knows that the boy knows the identity of his father's killer and fears that he might use his relationships, first with the killer's daughter, then with his niece, to try to avenge the boss's death.
"The subjects intercepted," write the prosecutors who coordinated the investigation , "hypothesized that the boy was pursuing an undeclared goal and was acting in retaliation." For investigators, this is crucial evidence of Tony Lipari's role. He is charged with aggravated murder.
He acted on behalf of the mafia boss Tommaso Lo Presti who saw Di Giacomo as a threat. Both were competing for the leadership and business of the Porta Nuova district. The Prosecutor's Office also requested the arrest of Lo Presti, who was already in prison, but the measure was not granted by the investigating judge. Instead, Lipari, who had been released from prison a few weeks ago, is back in jail.
Also against him are the statements of the repentant Alessio Puccio , a "soldier" of the Porta Nuova district who told investigators that he had learned from another man of honor, Fabio Pispicia , that the crime had been wanted by Lo Presti and carried out by Lipari.
