It was a tattoo that betrayed the killer of Fabrizio “Diabolik” Piscitelli , the leader of the northern curve of Lazio killed in an ambush at the park of the Aqueducts in Rome in August two years ago.
Raul Esteban Calderon, the 50-year-old arrested on 13 December as part of the investigation conducted by the Rome Anti-Mafia magistrates, shot Piscitelli - sitting on a bench because he was attracted to an appointment-trap - in the back of the head: that day in the park Calderon wore a running outfit to try to blend in with the green area goers. But a tattoo had remained uncovered, and it was also that which confirmed the identikit of the professional killer.
THE INVESTIGATIONS - "The Piscitelli crime matured in a criminal context of opposing groups - writes the investigating judge in the precautionary measure -. The Roman criminal world appears conspicuously governed by the same 'ancient' rules and method in force in the territories of traditional mafias: Piscitelli's activism and his being a leader figure of superior charisma or at least equal to the heads of the hegemonic criminal families for decades, such as the Casamonica, so as to be able to be peacemaker like a true godfather, however exposed him to discontent, intolerance and jealousies ".
To confirm this risk, the tone of some dialogues stolen by the investigators. "He's dead too, sitting on the bench he was, smoking a cigarette, took a shot behind here! And two more of those who shot there, oh well I know those who shot Leandro are dead. The whole of Rome knows it ... the guards, however, do not have proof ", says Enrico Bennato, arrested with Calderon for complicity in a second murder that took place a few months later.
In the interception he mentions his brother Leandro, wounded with two blows to the abdomen in November 2019 and perhaps the instigator of Diabolik's murder. To confirm this reconstruction is Calderon's former partner, heard by the investigators. "He told me what had happened and that is to have killed Diabolik, that Leo (Leandro Bennato ed) was the instigator, that the reason was personal, in the sense that Leo was considered 'infamous' by Diabolik and that he was spreading or could spread this rumor ". And again: "Raul told me that he had had one hundred thousand euros in cash - continues the woman in the report cited by the investigating judge in the order - in cash from Leo and since it was little but Leo had no other cash, he would have given him 4 thousand euros a month and would continue to work with him. " According to the investigating judge, it is "established that Calderon performs the function of killer in a professional manner, so to speak". A hitman ready to flee "as it is a subject who, apart from any consideration of his nationality and his permanent ties with his country of origin, has ongoing contacts with other countries, in particular with Spain".
(Unioneonline / D)
