(ANSA) - ASTI, MAY 06 - After 21 years, the murder of PietroBeggi, a well-known chef of the Ciabot del Grignolin restaurant in Calliano, in the Asti area, has a manager. The Turin Court of Assised Appeal reformed the acquittal of Giampaolo Nuara, decided in the first instance with an abbreviated procedure, condemning the accused to 14 years of imprisonment for intentional homicide. This was announced by the lawyer Maurizio La Matina, defender of the accused. On the night between 2 and 3 January 2000, the chef was found dying in the cellar of the restaurant, shot in the head in an attempted robbery. He died a few hours later in the hospital.
Nuara had been accused of being part of the gang that attacked the chef and tortured him to reveal the hiding place of the collection, over 30 million lire. Traces of the defendant's DNA had been found after 19 years on a stocking that the robbers wore to hide their face, in the course of another investigation, into a theft that took place in Pavia.
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