He wanted to reveal a drug trafficking that gravitated around the tourist port of Acciaroli , in the province of Salerno, of which he had come to know.
For this reason, according to the investigations, Angelo Vassallo , the mayor of Pollica who had not bowed to the Camorra and was shot dead on the night of 5 September 2010, in Acciaroli, was killed while he was driving home.
Twelve years after the crime, nine people are now being investigated for murder and conspiracy for drug trafficking. There are also three men of the Arma: the lieutenant colonel of the carabinieri Fabio Cagnazzo, the former brigadier Lazzaro Cioffi, the carabiniere Luigi Molaro.
With them four entrepreneurs - Giuseppe Cipriano and the brothers Domenico, Giovanni and Federico Palladino - as well as two bosses, Romolo and Salvatore Ridosso.
THE INVESTIGATION - There are two main areas on which the new investigation is focused, which could lead to a sensational turning point. The first is linked to the drug trafficking that revolved around the small port of Acciaroli, a fraction of Pollica, where the rubber boats arrived with the drug. A traffic that the mayor had discovered thanks also to the stalking commissioned to the traffic police, because he "did not trust" the local carabinieri . All this provoked in him "a strong sense of disappointment - reads the search decree - probably due to the involvement of people he would not have imagined could be involved".
And in fact, according to the DDA of Salerno, not only was the drug tour "attributable to a person close to Camorra organizations", now deceased, but "the carabinieri" Lazzaro Cioffi and Fabio Cagnazzo "were actively involved in it" and "the Palladino family " . Despite having "strong fears for his own safety", Vassallo confided in the former chief prosecutor of Vallo della Lucania, Alfredo Greco, reserving the right to formalize the complaint to a carabiniere of absolute trust of the same Greco.
But he didn't have time because he was killed the night before the meeting, on September 5, 2010, with nine gunshots while driving home . According to the Dda, the murder of the mayor was preceded by an inspection carried out by two people believed to be close to the clans - Salvatore and Romolo Ridosso - and by the entrepreneur Giuseppe Cipriano and was followed by " , already previously planned and guaranteed, carried out by Lieutenant Colonel Fabio Cagnazzo and by Carabiniere Luigi Molaro ".
