Uno Bianca, seven years of terror between robberies and deaths. This is why the gang is back in the spotlight

The magistrates of Bologna, who took over the investigations into the Banda della Uno Bianca three years ago, will once again hear Roberto Savi, 'the short man', the former policeman and, together with his brother Fabio, one of the leaders of the criminal group, in prison since 1994, who on Tuesday evening, during a television interview with Belve Crime, spoke of the 'cover-ups' by the services that he and his associates allegedly used. He also claimed that the real objective of the robbery at the armoury in Via Volturno was to eliminate former Carabiniere Pietro Capolungo, who was also 'ex-services'.

Criminals who left 23 dead and over 100 injured on the road, between Bologna, Romagna and Marche, between 1987 and 1994. Obviously, the prosecutors investigating the gang, with the hypothesis of conspiracy to murder, after the complaint filed in 2023 by the families of the victims, will soon acquire the full footage of the interview, made on Wednesday, about three hours. Shorter was the part aired yesterday, a good hour, where Roberto Savi, between partial admissions and half-mouthed sentences, made it clear that behind the Band of the Uno Bianca there were not only 'the headlights, the bumper and the number plate', as his brother Fabio said years ago. A thesis, this one, already advanced by Savi during some trials, but then retracted. The Public Prosecutor's Office, in any case, wants to see it clearly, and although it is aware that the stories of the former policeman and his 'revelations' may be a way to obtain certain benefits, there are several aspects that it is investigating.

There is the subject of the covers the Band of the Uno Bianca could use. Of the possible use of the members of the group to carry out actions with more or less hidden aims: "Every so often we were called: let's do this, and we did that", he told Belve. And again: 'Every week, I would spend two or three days in Rome'. Then there is the equally important issue of identifying the other people who took part in the gang's bloody deeds, as already indicated in the complaint submitted by the victims' families and as also emerges from some testimonies and the investigations carried out by the Bologna magistrates, who have already found confirmation on this aspect.

That there are unknown persons, still at large, who participated in some criminal actions of the gang is an objective fact for the investigators. Hearing Roberto Savi soon and verifying whether Pietro Capolungo (son of Alberto, president of the Victims' Association) was part of the services, is also what lawyers Luca Moser and Alessandro Gamberini, who are assisting the family members, will ask the public prosecutor's office in a special petition.

Another topic addressed was that of the capture. Savi countered the official reconstruction, namely of an intuition of Rimini police officers Luciano Baglioni and Pietro Costanza. 'The truth,' Roberto said, 'is that my brother was dumber than he looks. He told Eva Mikula everything. He talked too much, and turned her into a witness'. It was Mikula herself, then Fabio Savi's partner, who repeatedly said that the gang was caught thanks to her, who commented: 'I received harsh confirmation from Roberto's words, that I was a witness and told by him that he killed witnesses, that I am a survivor'.