Valter Lavitola arrested for the attack on Ranucci

Valter Lavitola arrested for the attack on Ranucci
Valter Lavitola during the hearing in which Romano Prodi testified as a witness, at the trial on the alleged buying and selling of senators, Naples, July 16, 2014. ANSA / CIRO FUSCO ANSA

The entrepreneur and former journalist-publisher Valter Lavitola has been arrested and taken to prison because he is accused of being the mastermind behind the attack on Sigfrido Ranucci, which took place last October in Pomezia near Rome. The precautionary measure was issued by the Rome judge in the context of the investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office – coordinated by prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi – in which the mafia method is also contested. The arrest was carried out by the Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit.

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Arrest also requested for intermediary Gomes Tavares

The Rome judge issued an arrest warrant, simultaneously with the precautionary measure for Valter Lavitola, against the Cameroonian citizen Gomes Clesio Tavares, accused by the Rome prosecutors of having participated in the plan for the attack on journalist Sigfrido Ranucci. The man is currently a fugitive and is believed to be in Africa. According to the accusation, Gomes was the intermediary between Lavitola and the gang – composed of four people – who physically carried out the dynamite action on October 16 last year in Pomezia, a town near Rome.

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