Trento, 13 May (LaPresse) – “No member of the Mercatone Uno team on the ground, nor from media reports, ever had any inkling that their most valuable champion, both in sporting and financial terms, was a target of the Neapolitan Camorra, and no one, to date, has taken the opportunity to provide any evidence or to document what internal investigations had been carried out and what results they had yielded, given that Marco Pantani’s conviction regarding what had happened in Madonna di Campiglio centred on the words ‘They betrayed me’ and ‘They cheated me’, with suggestions of a ‘conspiracy’”. This is written by the public prosecutor of the Trento Anti-Mafia Directorate, Patrizia Foiera, in her reasoning for the request to dismiss the investigation – involving three suspects – into the alleged “mafia-style criminal association linked to the death of Marco Pantani”, a document seen by LaPresse. Under the scrutiny of the public prosecutor’s office is the shadow of the Camorra, which is alleged to have intervened to deny the champion from Romagna victory in the 1999 Giro d’Italia. On the morning of 5 June, 26 years ago, in Madonna di Campiglio, when the ‘Pirate’ was firmly in the lead, a blood test ruled him out of the race. ‘The request for the case to be closed is made not without noting that the long time that has elapsed and the passing of key figures from that era, who could have shed light on this new line of inquiry, have undoubtedly worked against the case,’ the judicial authority points out.
The Pantani case, Trento public prosecutor: ‘No one has taken the opportunity to assist the investigation’
Trento, 13 May (LaPresse) – “No member of the Mercatone Uno team on the ground, nor from media reports, ever had any inkling that their most valuable champion, both in sporting and financial terms, was a target of the Neapolitan Camorra, and no one, to date, has taken the opportunity to provide any evidence or to document what internal investigations had been carried out and what results they had yielded, given that Marco Pantani’s conviction regarding what had happened in Madonna di Campiglio centred on the words ‘They betrayed me’ and ‘They cheated me’, with suggestions of a ‘conspiracy’”. This is written by the public prosecutor of the Trento Anti-Mafia Directorate, Patrizia Foiera, in her reasoning for the request to dismiss the investigation – involving three suspects – into the alleged “mafia-style criminal association linked to the death of Marco Pantani”, a document seen by LaPresse. Under the scrutiny of the public prosecutor’s office is the shadow of the Camorra, which is alleged to have intervened to deny the champion from Romagna victory in the 1999 Giro d’Italia. On the morning of 5 June, 26 years ago, in Madonna di Campiglio, when the ‘Pirate’ was firmly in the lead, a blood test ruled him out of the race. ‘The request for the case to be closed is made not without noting that the long time that has elapsed and the passing of key figures from that era, who could have shed light on this new line of inquiry, have undoubtedly worked against the case,’ the judicial authority points out.
