“The investigation conducted by the IV Committee brought to the surface singular and significant circumstances which make it possible other hypotheses on the death” of Marco Pantani “also considering a possible role of organized crime and of those circles to which he unfortunately turned due to the addiction of which he was a victim”. This is what the Anti-Mafia Parliamentary Commission underlines in the report containing the “Findings relating to the death of the sportsman Marco Pantani and any elements connected to organized crime which led to his disqualification in 1999″, approved at the end of the last legislature and now made public.
“The question that the racer’s family has been asking for years remains open: is it really certain that Marco Pantani died from voluntary or accidental intake of lethal doses of cocaine, also connected to the intake of psychotropic drugs?”, asks the Commission.
“The elements that emerged from the investigation carried out by this Parliamentary Commission – underlined in the report – allow us to affirm that a different reconstruction of the causes of the athlete’s death does not constitute a ‘mere abstract possibility that can be hypothesized in literature and news articles journalism’ and must induce those who investigate to scrutinize every aspect of the story without neglecting the possibility that not everything has been duly investigated, possibly seeking the reasons”.
“DIFFERENT CHOICES OF DISPUTABLE INQUIRANTS” – “The story of Marco Pantani has shaken everyone’s conscience and not just those who have appreciated his athletic feats on the most impervious climbs, the result of the same tenacity with which Mrs. Pantani today invokes justice for her son. In the public opinion, after an initial moment of uncertainty due, perhaps, also to information which, in the days immediately following the disqualification, had condemned him without the possibility of appeal, was the belief that something anomalous had happened both in Madonna di Campiglio and in Rimini was always widespread on the tragic evening of Valentine’s Day in 2004. This Commission believes that the numerous doubtful elements that emerged during the investigation are of such importance as to deserve careful study: the hypotheses based on those elements cannot be reduced to mere abstract possibilities of discussion in television services or in press articles” underlines the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission in the report.
The Anti-Mafia Commission led by Nicola Morra in the XVIII legislature investigated the case also through the IV Committee ‘Criminal influence and control on activities related to gaming in its various forms’, coordinated by Senator Giovanni Endrizzi who proposed the final report.
According to the Antimafia “nor can we agree with the other affirmation of the Judicial Authority of Rimini, i.e. that certain affirmations were induced by the intention of generating in public opinion the idea of non-exemplary conduct by the judicial police who intervened on the evening of the champion’s death – observes the Antimafia – In reality, there are various choices and behaviors put in place by the investigators that appear questionable. First of all, the hasty conclusion that Marco Pantani’s death was accidental or even the consequence of a suicide, which was also reached on the assumption that he had remained isolated for several days up until his death, with the consequent exclusion of third party liability “.
THE FACTS OF MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO – “The Public Prosecutor’s Office of Rimini has reopened the investigation; we hope that even with regard to the events in Madonna di Campiglio we will and can go to the bottom, whatever the scenario that will unravel and whoever is involved” underlines the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission .
“Because Justice is, as in the images that represent it, a blindfolded goddess capable of fulfilling its task, whoever is in front of it”, writes the Commission.
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