Naples – Colonel Fabio Cagnazzo, one of the main suspects in the investigation into the murder of fisherman-mayor Angelo Vassallo, is back in uniform. The Lazio Regional Administrative Court (TAR) has annulled the ministerial decree by which the Ministry of Defense had ordered his precautionary suspension from service in October 2025.
The administrative court's decision represents a further turning point in the officer's legal journey, having already been released in May 2025 after eight months of pre-trial detention.
On that occasion, the Court of Review had overturned the order of the Salerno preliminary investigations judge who had also applied restrictive measures against him, along with those against the other three suspects: the businessman Giuseppe Cipriano, the former informer Romolo Ridosso, and the former Carabiniere Lazzaro Cioffi.
Attention now turns to the next, crucial step in the process: the hearing on January 30th, at which the Salerno Prosecutor's Office is expected to rule on the request to commit all defendants to trial. That date could mark the start of the trial for the murder of Vassallo, the mayor of Pollica who became a symbol of the fight for legality, murdered on the night of September 5, 2010.
The revocation of the suspension, despite being an administrative measure, comes just days before the judicial deadline and refocuses the spotlight on a case that, nearly sixteen years after the crime, is still awaiting a trial on the merits.
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