For 30 years he wore the uniform in Alghero, engaged in patrols as a corporal carabiniere . He would have liked to enjoy his well-deserved retirement with his family, between Sardinia and Tunisia, where he usually spent some time, but in North Africa instead he found death, on September 21, during a dinner with friends, in a house in Hammamet.
The fate of Giuseppe Maio, 62, of Sicilian origins but adopted by Alghero, is a mystery. In the company of other former Italian soldiers and former Italian intelligence agents, during a dinner, the man ingested a homemade liqueur, a type of nocino, obtained by macerating peach stones, and immediately felt ill . Three other Italians also suffered serious symptoms of poisoning. All were admitted to the hospital in Tunis, one in a pharmacological coma. Unfortunately, Giuseppe Maio did not make it . An accident, according to the investigators in Hammamet .
Some of the guests at the dinner, it would have emerged from the investigations, had taken part in the investigation that culminated with the arrest, last August in Hammamet, of the fugitive Angelo Salvatore Stracuzzi, 55 years old, originally from Licata, also known as the king of concrete . The operation was conducted by the Economic-Financial Police Unit of Palermo (Gico), under the direction of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate, through the international cooperation channel Interpol. But Maio in Tunis, also according to his colleagues in Alghero, was simply enjoying his retirement. The body has not yet returned to Alghero.
