Eighteen years after the death of Marco Pantani, which took place on February 14, 2004, the third investigation into the death of the champion capable of winning both the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France in 1998 continues.

The taxi driver who claims to have accompanied two escorts to the Le Rose residence in Rimini, where the "Pirate" was found lifeless, was questioned by the carabinieri of Rimini. The taxi driver would have confirmed the episode, but the details of the two women are still to be confirmed.

To push for the reopening of a third investigation, after the previous two had dismissed the case as death caused by a mix of drugs and drugs, was Tonina Belletti, the mother of Pantani, who was heard by the military on 4 February. for three and a half hours.

To the men of the investigative unit of the Rimini operations department, the cyclist's mother had said that "Marco was not alone the night he died, there were two escorts with him".

The new dossier is currently still based on form 45, the one used for acts that do not constitute crime reports. Only in the next few days will it be possible to hypothesize new crimes such as the failure to provide assistance.

At the end of the first investigation, in 2005 for the crime of death as a consequence of another crime, namely the drug dealer that caused Pantani's overdose, Fabio Miradossa and Ciro Veneruso negotiated sentences of respectively 4 years and 10 months and 3 years and 10 months . The second investigation was instead closed in 2016, after new forensic reports, substantially confirming the findings of the first.

(Unioneonline / L)