all the doubts about the Travaglio-Lucarelli case –

Rita Cavallaro

July 08, 2024

There is more than something that does not add up in the accusations made once morest Chico Forti on the phantom story of wanting to have the ‘ndrangheta intervene to silence Marco Travaglio and Selvaggia Lucarelli. After the denial of the Italian himself sentenced to life imprisonment for murder in the United States, who swore he had never said or thought of silencing Il Fatto, now the witness who witnessed the conversation between Forti and a prisoner close to the clans, during which Chico allegedly made the disturbing request, is also missing. The witness, already heard by investigators who have opened a file without suspects or hypotheses of crime, confirmed that the conversation in the Verona prison did take place, but that Forti would not have asked for the intercession of the ‘ndrangheta to silence someone in exchange for future favors when he would have been a candidate with the center-right.

In short, it was the press that created a case, also in light of the fact that the investigation did not start from the complaint of Chico’s interlocutor, but from Travaglio, who, warned of the threat from the guarantor of prisoners, called the Prosecutor’s Office to report the alleged threats not just any man, but the one who had been welcomed in Italy by Giorgia Meloni, the only prime minister capable of cashing in from the USA, in over a decade, the yes to Forti’s transfer to Italy. And that the case was properly exploited by Fatto Quotidiano, which welcomed Chico’s arrival with the headline “Welcome Assassin”, can be deduced from the campaign launched in the days following the release of the news of the file with the Italian’s alleged indecent proposal.

So much so that in an interview with La Stampa, Lucarelli attacks the Prime Minister and reveals a fake news regarding Forti. «During the trial, an American police informant, an expert in martial arts, revealed that Chico Forti, years before, unaware of his collaboration with the police, had asked him to find a hitman to take out a Miami lawyer who was hindering his business. Now Forti is repeating the pattern and wants to engage the ‘ndrangheta once morest me and Travaglio. In fact, it is the same modus operandi, which I do not believe the two prisoners were aware of».
Someone tell the Il Fatto contributor that in addition to the prisoners, not even the jurors know this precedent. In the 18 days of the Forti trial, in fact, 55 witnesses paraded, most of them summoned by the State, but the informant was not called to testify, nor was the story of the phantom hitman mentioned by the accusers.