Franco Lettieri, the man who was stabbed last night in Ascoli Piceno, who had been living in the Marche city for some time, was a former collaborator of justice.
"O 'Cacaglio", this is the nickname by which the 56-year-old from Salerno was known, had moved there from Campania where he had been involved in some facts connected with organized crime, so much so that he had been convicted of criminal association. He had collaborated with justice, living for a period under protection which, however, had been taken away from him for some time and had received a sum of money to be able to rebuild a life away from his land. He then settled in Ascoli. However, his legal background is not, at the moment, connected in any way with the murder of which Lettieri was the victim last night and for which Petre Lambru, a 57-year-old Romanian bricklayer, also a resident of Ascoli, is in prison. Lettieri in the past had been the object of attention from the judiciary for the death of a woman from Ascoli with whom he had accompanied after she was left a widow; there was talk of a hypothesis of ill-treatment for which, however, no elements had been collected.
