A "blatant murder", on the street, a full-blown mafia-style ambush, and an execution that made Buccinasco, a satellite town of Milan, plunge back into the dark years of the Mafia war.
It happened yesterday morning, when the 60-year-old offender for drugs Paolo Salvaggio, judged to be a drug broker and with contacts both in 'Ndrangheta circles and in those of the Sacred Crown, was killed with three shots, the last of which when he was already on the ground in agony.
Salvaggio was riding his bicycle when he was approached at the traffic light by a scooter from which the first shots were fired, at close range, which hit him head and shoulder. Then, when he was on the ground, the killer shot him again in the face.
Hospitalized in cardiac arrest at Humanitas in Rozzano (Milan), Salvaggio died shortly after arriving at the hospital.
Already involved in important investigations in the area, the 60-year-old was under house arrest in the house of his ex-wife, and had a permit to go out two hours in the morning, from 10 to 12, just at the time in which he was followed, reached and killed, a stone's throw from a public park, before he arrived at a small bar where he used to go: modalities that suggest a planned ambush, even if all the hypotheses are currently open by the Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Milan who investigate the episode.
"I guess he was killed by professionals - said Mayor Rino Pruiti - who shot him one last shot in the head when he was on the ground" without letting him escape. "Now we need to understand why after decades shooting here is starting again - he added - Evidently the equilibrium between the families of organized crime has jumped."
"For decades, criminals and mafia families have lived here. We have been saying this for decades. The proportion of premises seized from mafias that we have here is higher than in Reggio Calabria, one for every thousand inhabitants," he explained. But until now the affairs of organized crime had remained under the radar: "The last murdered person dates back to the end of the 1980s". For this reason, after the attack "the concern is very high".
