The Reggio Calabria Public Prosecutor's Office has opened a murder investigation against Maria Pia Tropepi, a doctor originally from Gioia Tauro, in connection with the death of former parliamentarian Amedeo Matacena, which occurred in Dubai on September 16, 2022. Matacena, a former shipowner and politician, had been on the run for nine years after a final conviction for external association with a mafia organization.
The Italian authorities have launched an investigation to shed light on some suspicious circumstances related to Matacena's death, as well as the death of his mother Raffaela De Carolis, which occurred three months earlier, also in Dubai. The Reggio Calabria District Anti-Mafia Directorate (DDA), under the leadership of the prosecutor Giuseppe Lombardo, has requested the exhumation of the bodies to perform toxicological tests. In this regard, Professor Aniello Maiese and Professor Maria Chiara David, both from La Sapienza University of Rome, have been appointed as experts.
The bodies of Matacena and his mother were brought back to Italy after a long legal dispute with Tropepi, the former parliamentarian's last wife, who had opposed the return of the bodies, supporting her husband's wish to be cremated. In the end, Matacena's children from previous marriages managed to have the bodies returned, buried respectively in Formia and Reggio Calabria.
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Amedeo Matacena, despite his status as a fugitive, had managed to rebuild his life in Dubai, where he had started several successful businesses. The official certificates issued in the Emirates indicated cardiac arrest as the cause of his death, a version also confirmed by Tropepi. However, the Calabrian Prosecutor's Office decided to investigate the circumstances of his death, also in light of the fact that Matacena, ten months after his death, could have returned to Italy free, having already served his sentence.
The investigations of the Public Prosecutor's Office are now focusing on the possible presence of external responsibilities linked to the suspicious deaths of Matacena and her mother, Raffaela De Carolis. The case opened for murder has led to the registration of Maria Pia Tropepi in the register of suspects, defended by the lawyer Attilio Parrelli of the Reggio Calabria Bar Association.
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