Disappearance of Kata, the Florence prosecutor: “Four main leads”
Drug trafficking, room racketeering at the former Astor hotel, mistaken identity, possible sexual abuse. These are the 4 major investigative hypotheses that the Florence prosecutor’s office takes precedence in the investigation that it has been conducting for a year now into the case of little girl of Peruvian origin Mia Kataleya Chicclo Alvarezfor everyone simply Kata, disappearance right from the former Astor hotel in via Maragliano in Florence, a structure at the time illegally occupied by many people, including Kata and his family. The chief prosecutor, Filippo Spiezia, explained it this morning, three days before the anniversary of Kata’s disappearance.
The prosecutor also underlined how the investigation is “highly complex” also because it is “aggravated by the fact that the news of the disappearance arrived with a time gap compared to the disappearancebut also because we believe based on the elements collected that it is the result of the implementation of a plan that was well organized in detail, and not an extemporaneous activity”. The investigators’ work, he added “is continuing on several tracks, and the difference compared to the initial phase is that our work is more selective with respect to the hypotheses taken into consideration”. Spiezia then assured that “the investigations have never been interrupted”, and “not only have we continued to cultivate possible new leads, but also proceeded with an ongoing re-reading of the investigative and informative material documents collected in the first phase of the investigation, because evidently with a greater familiarity of names, faces, sounds and voices of people it is now possible to enhance detailed aspects compared to a first phase of investigation”. The prosecutor also said that “have been started advanced investigative techniques to find traces and evidence necessary for the completion of the work” and that there is “confirmation that the network of video cameras surrounding the Astor hotel had a hole from the observation of the cameras and we have reason to believe that that hole was exploited by whoever kidnapped the little girl “.
At present we have two suspects “but there are no elements to decline the position of these two subjects”. The magistrate also highlighted that the two communities involved because they were present in the former Astor hotel, Peruvian and Romanian, “were characterized by non-collaborative attitudes, and we moved in a context which was also silent” and “the investigations also developed on an international level by having contacts with both Romanian and Peruvian authorities”. Finally, Spiezia made it known that “there could be developments in the matter shortly but they will depend on the point we make with respect to the other consultations we will have with those who are investigating with us and we have set an appointment at the beginning of the summer”.
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