“He was my angel. Why did they kill him? ”. Rosaria, the elderly mother of Massimo Melis, who was murdered in Turin with a gunshot to the head on Halloween night, cannot give peace. To comfort her, with her daughter who lives outside the city but has recently moved to the apartment on the second floor of the public housing in Via Desana, there is also Don Nicholas, parish priest of the Maria Speranza Nostra church.
"We ask to be left alone in our pain. We feel suffocated", they say, ideally joining the request for confidentiality of her friend Patrizia, the last to have seen him in life. "Massimo was wonderful, I'll find who killed him. The stalker? Doesn't exist ...", she says, excluding the hypothesis of the last few days that the victim protected her from a man who was distressing her with his behavior.
Therefore, the murder of the 52-year-old operator of the Green Cross of Sardinian origins remains a mystery, found dead in his Fiat Punto Blu parked in via Gottardo. And the hypothesis of a settling of scores and a mistaken identity also appears.
THE FACTS - On Sunday, October 31, Halloween evening, Patrizia Cataldo, a forty-year-old from Turin who runs the Gottardo bar with her father among the high-rises of Barriera, an ancient district of Turin, asks Melis if she can go shopping with her. The two had had a relationship in the past and it seems "there had been a rapprochement", the investigators explain, even though Patrizia specified that Melis was just "a great friend".
Massimo helps Patrizia with her bags to the front door, on the second floor of a large building where she lives alone and where, among other things, she returns by chance that evening because she had moved to her parents' house for a few days on the way. of a mother's health problem.
Massimo greets Patrizia and leaves, gets off to take his Punto blu and go home, a few blocks away where he lives with his mother. It's about 8.30pm. The car is located in a dark corner of the tree-lined square overlooked by Patrizia's windows. Melis opens the door, gets in, lights a cigarette. And at that point, even before putting on the seat belt and inserting the key in the ignition, someone opens the door, points a .38 to his head and pulls the trigger from about ten centimeters. One shot, deadly, fired at point blank range.
"The death is to be traced back more or less at 9 pm on Sunday", clarifies the coroner.
Nobody sees or hears anything, and Massimo's body will be found the next day by Patrizia, alerted by Massimo's mother who is distressed for not having seen him return home. There are no cameras in the area either.
THE INVESTIGATIONS - The suspicions then fall on a 62-year-old man who has been courting Patrizia for some time, a convict for crimes committed several years ago. Patrizia had talked about it with Massimo but was quick to point out that he was not a stalker , if anything, a suitor "certainly not reciprocated".
At the moment, therefore, there is no name in the register of suspects, and the file is against unknown persons for voluntary homicide. The trail of the attempted robbery ended in tragedy should be excluded, because Melis's wallet and mobile phone were left in the car. The hypothesis of drugs or drug dealers is also excluded.
The forensic police are therefore analyzing mobile phones, printouts, cells. He also delves into Melis's private life, his job, any credits, but everything seems insignificant.
In the past few hours, the investigators have returned to the bar where Patrizia works for another inspection. The restaurant has not yet reopened, while the woman and her family have closed themselves in the house and ask to "be left alone". The investigations conducted by the investigators of the Mobile Squad, led by Luigi Mitola and coordinated by the prosecutor Chiara Canepa go on without anything being left to chance.
(Unioneonline / vl)
