An inmate allegedly pretended to want to collaborate with justice only to be interrogated by the Lecce DDA prosecutor, Carmen Ruggiero, and to cut her throat during the meeting.
The plan, which later failed, was apparently conceived by 42-year-old Pancrazio Carrino, one of the suspects involved in the operation called 'The Wolf' which led the Salento judiciary, in July 2023, to dismantle the Lamendola-Cantanna clan.
The target was precisely the prosecutor in charge of the investigation, Carmen Ruggiero, who obtained the precautionary custody order for 22 people from the investigating judge Francesca Mariano.
Both Ruggiero and Mariano ended up under guardianship.
Over the past few days, judge Marinano was assigned an armored car escort after a kid's head with a knife stuck in it was left under her house.
About two weeks after the arrest, on July 31st, Carrino - emerges from his interrogation report of October 23rd - held a first meeting with the Salento investigators in the presence of prosecutor Ruggiero.
In this circumstance the prisoner should have cut the prosecutor's throat.
However, the plan fails.
It was Carrino himself who confessed to the foiled attack in the second interrogation, on 23 October, which was no longer held in the Lecce prison but in the Terni prison, where the prisoner had meanwhile been transferred.
Here Carrino finds himself in front of the Umbrian prosecutor Raffaele Pesiri and no longer Ruggiero (who had delegated her local colleague).
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