Four arrests for the murder of Mayor Vassallo, there is also a Carabinieri colonel
The mayor of Pollica (Salerno) was killed on 5 September 2010. Those arrested are Carabinieri officer Fabio Cagnazzo, the son of boss and collaborator of justice Romolo Ridosso of the Scafati Loreto-Ridosso clan, businessman Giuseppe Cipriano, and former Carabinieri brigadier Lazzaro Cioffi. The investigators' reconstruction identifies the motive for the assassination as the discovery of a drug trafficking ring linked to Camorra circles and in which members of the Arma were also allegedly involved.
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There are four arrests in connection with the murder of the mayor of Pollica, Angelo Vassallo, killed on 5 September 2010. They are Carabinieri officer Fabio Cagnazzo, the son of boss and collaborator of justice Romolo Ridosso of the Scafati Loreto-Ridosso clan, businessman Giuseppe Cipriano, and former Carabinieri brigadier Lazzaro Cioffi. The Special Operational Grouping of the Carabinieri in Rome executed the pre-trial detention orders in prison.
Four arrests for the murder of Mayor Angelo Vassallo
Carabinieri Colonel Fabio Cagnazzo, for years head of the Castello di Cisterna company, was the protagonist in Naples and province of investigations into the most powerful Camorra clans. He then became provincial commander in Frosinone, and for a year and a half was among those under investigation for the death of Vassallo. The investigators' reconstruction identifies the motive for the assassination as the mayor's discovery of a drug trafficking ring linked to Camorra circles and in which members of the Arma were also allegedly involved. Also according to the accusations, Cagnazzo was allegedly involved in an organised investigation diversionary activity even before Vassallo was killed.
The false lead of the Brazilian and the quarrel with the hotelier
The false trail of the 'Brazilian' and the alleged quarrel with a hotelier. These are the two deceptions that the Salerno Public Prosecutor's Office blames on Colonel Fabio Cagnazzo. The Carabinieri of the Ros in Rome, coordinated by the Salerno Public Prosecutor's Office (Prosecutor Giuseppe Borrelli) have reconstructed all the phases immediately following the crime, when Colonel Cagnazzo "as previously agreed, effectively diverted the investigations conducted by the Salerno Public Prosecutor's Office", directing them towards the false trail of the 'Brazilian' pusher Bruno Humberto Damiani and the quarrel with Roberto Vassallo (only the murdered mayor's namesake, owner of a local hotel). All to cover up the drug trafficking organised at the port of Acciaroli by the Cesarano clan of Castellammare di Stabia, Pompei and Scafati.
Angelo Vassallo, the mayor-fisherman who loved the environment
