The Criminal Court of Cosenza (southern Italy) determined that the Italian footballer Denis Bergamini He did not take his own life in 1989, as his ex-girlfriend always maintained, Isabella Internòsentenced as guilty of homicide to 16 years in prison.
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Bergaminiwho played for Cosenza for five seasons (1985-1989) and played two in Serie B, He was murdered at the age of 29 by the Italian Isabella Internòhis ex-girlfriend, 18 years old when he committed the crime, helped by two other people whose identity is currently unknown.
The convicted woman always maintained the version that the soccer player, in an argument on November 18, 1989, jumped into the void from a motel of Calabria (south) and was hit by a truck on the highway.
However, after three years of investigations in a case that has been reopened several times since 1989, authorities determined that the Bergamini was thrown into the void, lifeless, after being suffocated with a plastic bag or similar material.
The ruling by the Cosenza Criminal Court underlined how Internò had planned everything in what he considers a “crime of passion.”
The player met with her to definitively settle any problem after having previously ended the relationship. The ex-girlfriend took advantage of that meeting to murder the player in an area far from Cosenza and with unknown accomplices.
Before hearing the sentence, Internò, now 53 years old, maintained his version of the events and declared himself innocent: “I just want to say that I am innocent and I have not done anything. I swear it before God, the only witness I cannot have.” .
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For her part, the sister of Denis Bergamini, He celebrated the sentence after 35 years of fighting to prove that his brother did not commit suicide.
“Now my brother can finally fly. I dedicate this sentence to the football fans of Cosenza and the city as a whole, to my father who is no longer here, to my mother and my children who have always waited for justice,” he told the media after hearing the final verdict.
“I don’t care about the conviction, it has been proven that Denis was murdered,” he added.
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