(ANSA) - CATANIA, 09 NOV - It seemed a death due to natural causes that of an inmate of the Caltagirone prison on January 31 last, but forensic examinations allowed to ascertain that Giuseppe Calcagno had been murdered instead. And for the Prosecutor's Office to kill him would have been his then cellmate, who would have strangled him in his sleep. The suspect for the murder, who was under house arrest, was arrested by the carabinieri. Against him, the military forces carried out an order by the investigating judge issued at the request of the prosecutor of Caltagirone, Giuseppe Verzera, and of the substitute Samuela Maria Lo Martire.
The story was made known, with a press release, by the Caltagirone prosecutor who speaks of the murder of what was initially considered a death from natural causes. "The meticulous investigative activity carried out - writes the Prosecutor, without indicating either the identity or the age of the suspect or the motive - corroborated by unequivocal medico-legal investigations, allowed to shed light on the causes of the death of the prisoner, which initially appeared what a natural death ". "On the contrary, the investigations carried out," explains the Prosecutor of Caltagirone, "ascertained that" GT, by strangulation, drawing on the neck of the calcaneus, while he slept, caused the death of Calcagno ", his cellmate. who was being held for another offense,he was then released from prison and placed under house arrest. After the new developments, "the suspect, however already convicted in the past for murder and attempted murder" was arrested again and, after the formalities, returned to prison. The precautionary measure of the investigating judge was carried out by carabinieri of the local judicial police section of the Caltagirone prosecutor's office assisted by military personnel from the local company.Weapon of the local company.Weapon of the local company.
