At a crucial moment, the gambling obsession collides with the tactics of crime: “Increasing my debt and receiving heavy threats (such as: 'I'll break your legs'), even during the night, I thought of gambling only to try to recover my debt,” said Nicolò. beans on September 28th in front of the Football Federation Prosecutor's Office.
These are direct threats to his safety, gangster movie situations. However, three months earlier, on June 23, in the interrogation room on the fifth floor of the Turin Prosecutor's Office, that crude and revealing phrase does not appear in the official report of the interrogation conducted by the public prosecutor Manuela Pedrotta and three agents of the Flying Squad.
Sure, it is a summary report, with five obvious parts hidden behind “omissions” in as many pages of the document, but such a passage is not mentioned. Even if it is a seemingly minor detail, this omission raises a question that, like the devil, hides in the details.
If serious threats were made, the case could be prosecuted for attempted extortion against the young Juventus midfielder, who would be the victim in this case. To clarify this aspect, the player could be called back to clarify the point and, possibly, provide more precise details. At the moment, however, no formal summons has been issued by the investigators.
In such a complex investigation, this detail is fundamental, because the transition from "credit lines" for betting to requests for payment under physical threat would reveal the criminal dimension of the characters involved.
This was the aspect that the detectives of the Squadra Mobile, led by Luigi Mitola, were initially investigating, before crossing paths with the young and rich football talents. At the moment, we can only speculate: Fagioli may have unconsciously downplayed the episode of threats for fear of the intimidation suffered; or he may have emphasized the situation in the sports context to mitigate his position, considering the prospect of a possible disqualification.
However, there is no evidence or clues in the documents that demonstrate the presence of creditors waiting for Fagioli outside Continassa to ask for their money back, or at least no report to that effect has reached the Turin police station, neither from the club's security service nor from the player himself.
Article published on 21 October 2023 - 09:54
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