(ANSA) – FOGGIA, MAY 28 – The ‘Foggia Society’ was not supposed to kill but only frighten Giovanni Panunzio, the Foggia businessman killed on November 6, 1992 because he refused to pay the mafia a bribe worth two billion lire. This is stated by Patrizio Villani, 45, a breeder from San Marco in Lamis, considered a killer of the Foggia mafia and a new ‘repentant’. Villani claims to have learned about it in prison from Donato Delli Carri who for the murder of Panunzio was definitively sentenced to 26 years in prison. According to Villani, Donato Delli Carri would have confided to him that he had been present on the evening of the ambush against the Foggia builder in via Napoli, but the aim of the command was only to scare him, while Federico Trisciuoglio (at the time of the facts simple affiliate, later became clan chief) acted on his own terms and killed him.
Trisciuoglio has never been charged with the murder of Panunzio. Villani also added that it was a member of the Francavilla-Sinesi group who told Trisciuoglio to take responsibility for the murder and to exonerate Delli Carri, but the man refused. This would have created an internal rift to the Foggia mafia, once united but then split into three batteries. Villani’s statements are present in the 130-page report filed yesterday by the two prosecutors of the Dda of Bari during the process with an abbreviated procedure called “Decima Bis” in progress in the ‘bunker’ of Bitonto (Bari) in front of the gup Antonella Carfagna and which counts about fifteen defendants, including Villani himself. The new collaborator of justice has been detained since December 2016: he was definitively sentenced to 30 years in prison as the material perpetrator of the 21-year-old murder of Roberto Tizzano and for the wounding of his friend Roberto Bruno, which took place in October 2016 in a bar on the outskirts of Foggia. He decided to collaborate with justice on 10 May and will be heard in the hearings on 3 and 24 June.
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Source: Ansa
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