There is a mystery about the death of the Palermo entrepreneur Angelo Onorato , 54 years old, husband of the MEP and deputy secretary of the Christian Democracy Francesca Donato, found dead yesterday afternoon inside his car , a Range Rover parked along Viale Regione Siciliana Nord Ovest , an artery parallel to the Palermo-Mazara del Vallo motorway where there are warehouses, companies and a few homes.
The man had a plastic band around his neck , blood stains were found on his shirt while there were no traces of a struggle inside the car.
According to the first body inspection carried out by the medical examiner, the entrepreneur died of suffocation. Did someone strangle him? The autopsy, ordered by the deputy prosecutor Ennio Petrigni who coordinates the investigation, will provide more details.
THE HYPOTHESES – There are currently two hypotheses: murder and suicide. However, the latter is not taken into consideration by the entrepreneur's friends. And much less by his wife : "They killed my husband Angelo" she immediately told some friends who called her to find out if the victim was really her husband. And then, when in the evening she was taken to the Flying Squad offices to be interviewed, she repeated it to those who asked her for information: " Angelo didn't kill himself ."
Even the people who were with Onorato at the start of summer party organized by the tennis club on Friday evening speak of a serene and happy person . But the hypothesis of suicide is not discarded by the investigators, for whom all hypotheses remain open.
Yesterday evening the police heard from a lawyer who may have reported a letter that Onorato, of whom he was a friend, left him . The same lawyer, according to some rumors, would have collected the man's confidences about economic problems due to debts and credits that he was unable to collect.
