Ora c’è un nome e un movente, anzi più di uno. Ad uccidere il sindaco di Policca, Angelo Vassallo, la sera del 5 settembre del 2010 fu l’ex brigadiere dei police Lazzaro Cioffi. Lo ha messo a verbale il pentito di camorra Romulus Ridosso in his recent interrogation on November 11th.
The minutes filed in the proceedings of the Review scheduled for next Monday were published in excerpt by the newspapers Il Fatto, Repubblica and Il Mattino and from which it emerges that the murder of the fisherman mayor had matured as a decision of the Scafatese group interested in developing drug trafficking in Cilento using the port of Acciaroli as an operational base.
In the interrogation report Ridosso says that the Scafatese entrepreneur Joseph Cyprian he had confided in him: “The involvement of Cioffi and Cipriano in the murder was instead (…) represented to me in December, when I met Giuseppe Cipriano in the cinema in Scafati… I walked away from my partner and went up to the office with Cipriano. On this occasion Cipriano told me exactly that the murder had been committed by them and in particular by Cioffi as the executor. In particular he told me: “it was your buddy”. I deduced that it was Cioffi because he was the only one of the group that I frequented together with Cipriano”.
And then Ridosso always explains what the reasons would have been: “On that occasion (Cipriano, ed.) he listed to me all the causes of the murder, stating, first of all, that the mayor wanted to throw him out of Acciaroli both because of the theft in a place he owned, located near the cinema (managed that summer by Cipriano, ed.), committed by one of his employees, and because he had not granted Raffaele Maurelli (originally from Castellammare di Stabia like Ridosso but cousin of Cipriano and member of the group dedicated to drug trafficking, investigated and died during the investigations, ed.) the possibility of doing some work in the port of Acciaroli and finally because he had discovered their involvement in drug trafficking”.
Next Monday, the requests for revocation of the precautionary measures carried out on November 7th presented by three of the four arrested that day will be discussed in the review court. Namely, the Carabinieri officer Fabio Cagnazzo (defended by the lawyer Ilaria Criscuolo), the former brigadier of the Carabinieri Lazzaro Cioffi (defended by the lawyer Giuseppe Stellato) and the entrepreneur from Scafati Giuseppe Cipriano (defended by the lawyer Giovanni Annunziata). Romolo Ridosso, defended by the lawyer Michele Avino, did not present any request.
The accusations of Romolo Ridosso against the alleged murderer of Angelo Vassallo will now have to be evaluated by the Review judges also because in the minutes attached to the documents there are some evident contradictions on which the defenders of the three are ready to do battle.
Article published on November 22, 2024 - 06:58
The article discusses a very complex and interesting case regarding the murder of the mayor of Policca. There is a lot of important information, but also some parts that could be clearer for the readers.