The sentence is chilling but it is the key to the investigation into the murder of Angelo Vassallo: “And so we also put the fisherman in his place.” This is Romolo Ridosso's comment on the ambush that on the evening of September 5, 2010 ended the life of Angelo Vassallo, mayor of Acciaroli in Cilento and who went down in history as "the fisherman mayor".
This is what can be read in the more than 400 pages of the precautionary order with which the investigating judge of the Court of Salerno Annamaria Ferraiolo ordered the imprisonment of the Carabinieri Colonel Fabio Cagnazzo, 54 years old, the former Brigadier Lazzaro Cioffi, 62 years old, the entrepreneur Giuseppe Cipriano, 56 years old, and Romolo Ridosso, 63 years old, believed to be a member of the Ridosso-Loreto Camorra clan.
At Ridosso's house, in the municipality of Lettere sui Monti Lattari, immediately after the ambush there had been a meeting, as his then partner, already a witness for justice, considered reliable by the investigators of the Salerno DDA, later told investigators a few years later.
She is a former lawyer from Gragnano who defended Ridosso in previous trials and later became his partner.The woman told investigators about a meeting between Cioffi, Cipriano and Ridosso in the latter's home in Lettere.
The two guests arrive on site in a black SUV and are greeted by Ridosso, who engages in a private conversation with them. Upon returning home, speaking out loud to himself, Ridosso states: “We even put the fisherman in his place”, without adding anything else.
And furthermore, as emerges from the order, there would have been a preventive agreement to mislead the investigations of the murder in which Cagnazzo would have participated, which would then have pushed the Salerno Prosecutor's Office to follow a false lead.
Colonel Cagnazzo "as previously agreed, effectively misled the investigations conducted by the Salerno Prosecutor's Office" by directing them towards a false trail, “that of the altercation between the mayor and Bruno Humberto Damiani and Roberto Vassallo, namesake of the murdered mayor, owner of a local hotel, over issues related to drug dealing”.
Cagnazzo, according to what emerged from the investigations of the ROS, after the murder of the fisherman mayor, allegedly worked to spread false news about Damiani's involvement, claiming that he had tested positive for the stub.
Damiani, the officer of the force now detained in the military prison of Santa Maria Capua Vetere falsely claimed, had also taken care of shadowing the victim near the port of Acciaroli. Another fake news that the carabiniere, according to investigators, spread at the time was that of the existence of a 'Damiani group' dedicated to drug trafficking that was transported using a dinghy.
Article published on November 7, 2024 - 18:28
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Really disturbing news, let's hope that justice takes its course.