Roberto Basso was killed. The Venice investigators reached this conclusion and opened a case for voluntary homicide. The tobacconist from Jesolo was found dead in his house yesterday morning by a brother, but the death dates back to Sunday evening, between 10pm and 12pm according to the medical examiner.
The 64-year-old had lived alone since his elderly mother passed away in a house in the village of Jesolo. The body was on the ground, and had a wound behind the skull, due to a blow - or perhaps more than one - inflicted with a blunt instrument that has not yet been identified.
To find out more we will have to wait for the outcome of the autopsy ordered by prosecutor Giovanni Zorzi, which will be carried out next Thursday. The investigations remain open on several hypotheses, including that of a robbery that ended in blood.
The alarm was raised on Monday by Basso's shopkeeper colleagues, suspicious of the fact that the tobacconist's shutters had remained closed. The first to go and check the house was his older brother Andrea. Having rang the doorbell without receiving an answer, the man, without a cell phone at the time, had taken a ladder, resting on the first floor terrace, to reach the window of the room from which he had seen his lifeless brother on the ground. The carabinieri, who arrived on site immediately after 118, found the door locked from the inside. One of the elements of the mystery, initially, was a broken glass on the smallest part of the French window that opened onto the balcony; glass which in reality was apparently broken by Basso's brother when he tried to enter the house. In fact, the man allegedly declared to the police that he had tried to break in through the window, and from there, stretching out his hand, he touched Roberto's foot, before leaving to talk to his brothers-in-law and call for help. To make things right, it will still be necessary to reconstruct why approximately an hour passed from the discovery of the body to the alarm reaching 118.
(Unioneonline/ss)
