A Milan court on Wednesday
closed a trial against a 64-year-old baker for the murder of
prosecutor Bruno Caccia in Turin in 1983 due to a procedural
problem.
However, the suspect, Rocco Schirripa, has not been able to
leave jail as prosecutors have already reopened the
investigation.
Schirripa was arrested in December 2015 after investigators
sent an anonymous letter to Domenico Belfiore, a former kingpin
of Calabria's 'Ndrangheta mafia in Piedmont who is serving a
life sentence for the assassination.
The letter contained the photocopy of a newspaper article
reporting the mobster's 1983 arrest with the name Rocco
Schirripa - who was in the service of the Belfiore family at the
time of the assassination - written on the back.
Investigators then probed his reaction using wire-taps.
Caccia was shot dead on the evening of June 26, 1983 while he
was out walking his dog near his home in Turin.
Investigators claim he was first shot and wounded by Belfiore
from a car before being finished off by Schirripa with a bullet
to the head.
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