“Lavitola confirmed the prosecutor’s accusatory hypothesis by admitting to being the mastermind behind the attack and says he did it to protect Ranucci’s safety, who was the target of several dangerous attempts to assault him and increase his level of protection.” This is what lawyer Sergio Cola said at the end of Valter Lavitola’s guarantee interrogation in Rebibbia prison.
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Lavitola – according to the lawyer – would have acted “to protect Ranucci’s safety, who was the target of several dangerous attempts to assault him. Also because Ranucci, at the time, did not have protection, but only two bodyguards. Since the attackers, in Lavitola’s view, were very dangerous, he did it because, in fact, after the attack the protection more than doubled, going from two to eight agents, who provided protection in a horseshoe formation.”
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Five hours before the Judge
The guarantee interrogation for Valter Lavitola in Rebibbia prison lasted five hours. He is accused of being the mastermind behind the attack last October in front of the home of journalist and Report host Sigfrido Ranucci. The businessman is also charged with the mafia method.
Lavitola has been under arrest since Monday, August 10, after the Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit executed the precautionary custody order issued by Judge Iole Moricca following the request made by the Rome prosecutor’s office. The recipient of the measure issued by the judge is also Gomes Clesio Tavares, Lavitola’s factotum, who is currently believed to be in Africa. The Roman prosecutors will initiate the extradition process against him.
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