A bomb under the car seat killed Hashi Omar Hassan, the Somali convicted and later acquitted for the murder of Ilaria Alpi and Miran Hrovatin on March 20, 1994 in Mogadishu while they were working on an investigation into waste and weapons trafficking.
This was announced in a tweet by the Somali independent news site Garowe Online.
Hassan was sentenced in the second degree and in the Supreme Court for having been part of the commando that killed the Italian journalists, but a subsequent appeal led to acquittal after more than 16 years of imprisonment.
The Italian State has compensated him with 3 million.
According to the Alpi family there was a vast misdirection.
Omar Hashi Hassan, the 2015 interview with ANSA
Legal Hashi: 'Killed by Islamic terrorists'
- "It was the Islamic terrorists, no doubt. They killed him with the aim of extortion for the money he had obtained for his unjust detention in Italy. They are people looking for money and if you don't agree with them I will kill you" .
This is what the lawyer Antonio Moriconi, historical defender of Hashi Omar Hassan, who was killed today in Mogadishu and who for 17 years was in prison in connection with the murder of Ilaria Alpi and Milan Hrovatin, affirms.
"We have received the news of Hashi's death from some of our local sources - adds the criminal lawyer -. The clan to which Hashi belonged has ties to the new government. He, since he had returned to freedom, after the review process that had him completely exonerated, he wanted to do something for his country and he dreamed of entering the import-export sector.
He sometimes made a stop in Italy, but he also went to Sweden to see his daughter and then to friends in other European cities. "For the unjust detention, Italy has compensated Hashi for over three million euros." It is a high figure and due to the whole prison that was made to suffer to an innocent - continues Moriconi - But that money killed him.
Because the terrorists knew about it and evidently, after he didn't succumb to some extortion, they blew him up.
The technique of his attack on him says it all. "Moriconi remembers meeting Hashi for the last time about two months ago." We went to eat together.
Italy was not his home, he always dreamed and talked about Mogadishu, about what he wanted to do, about craftsmanship, about businesses.
He, his family,
