“A young, great investigator, whom we lost prematurely, in 2010, at only 44 years of age” but who “in his years of service dealt important blows both to the Neapolitan Camorra and to the Sicilian Cosa Nostra”.
This was said by the Naples police commissioner, Alessandro Giuliano, after the inauguration, with the new head of the Police Vittorio Pisani, of the meeting room of the Naples Police Headquarters dedicated to the first manager Mario Bignone, who passed away at only 44 years old, in Palermo. Also heartfelt was the memory of the deceased manager by Pisani with whom he collaborated on several investigations.
“It would have been a great joy for me to be able to avail myself of his collaboration,” he said, shortly after having told the many police officers present and the journalists some anecdotes linked to an important arrest, that of Pietro Licciardi, a leading member of the Camorra clan of the same name, a member of the criminal federation called the Secondigliano Alliance, arrested in Prague after a period of being a fugitive.
“Since he was a son of the city of Naples,” Giuliano said after cutting the ribbon with Pisani, “and came, in the first part of his professional career, from the Naples Flying Squad, we thought it was important that both the colleagues who knew him and the subsequent generations, who were not so fortunate, could have a place where they could see his name and his face.”
The wife of the deceased manager read a moving letter dedicated to her husband and expressed her heartfelt thanks to both the chief of police and the police commissioner for dedicating the room in the Flying Squad offices to her husband.
Pisani greeted by applause from the officers upon arrival
A long round of applause from colleagues and former colleagues upon his arrival at the Police Headquarters in Naples. This is how the new Chief of Police, Vittorio Pisani, was welcomed. After having directed the Flying Squad from 2004 to 2011, he returned today to the Campania capital to attend the naming of a room in the Police Headquarters after the first director Mario Bignone, who passed away in Palermo at the age of 44.
Pisani thanked for the expressions of esteem received and appeared moved, especially when the police officers present chanted his name. Pisani then cut the ribbon of the room named after Bignone, together with the commissioner Alessandro Giuliano, who expressed words of affection towards him. “I don’t need to tell you how much your presence here in this capacity, just four days after your inauguration, makes the police headquarters of Naples proud,” Giuliano said, addressing Pisani.
Article published on May 26, 2023 - 16:50 pm
