The boss Ursini and the lupara bianca of Turin: "Invited to a party, but the grave was ready"
New interceptions in the ROS operation on the murder of the 'Ndrangheta scion who disappeared from Chivasso in April 2009 and was never found
GIUSEPPE LEGATO
April 21, 2024 at 10:39 am
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The victim's Alfa 166 found five months after his disappearance
Whether it will be enough as an impulse to reopen the investigation or whether it will remain a stone in the pond, a shadow in the fog that surrounds his disappearance, we will see. Be that as it may, the cold case on the killing of Rocco Vincenzo Ursini , affiliated with the 'Ndrangheta and disappeared for 15 years now, takes a further step forward. According to the documents, he disappeared one morning in April 2009. He was only 29 years old . According to the DDA of Turin he was affiliated with the historic club of Moncalieri. The last cell connected by his cell phone is the one on Strada del Francese, formerly the Turin hinterland. Then, nothing more. His car, an Alfa 166, was found in the Brandizzo area several months after his disappearance.
In the papers of the latest operation of the Carabinieri ROS and of the DDA prosecutor Valerio Longi who uncovered the infiltration of an 'ndrina - the Pasquas - in the maintenance works of the A32 Turin-Bardonecchia motorway , there are some conversations that have reopened a seemingly closed book. It was 17 April 2020 when , at 7.17pm, a computer virus inoculated on Giuseppe Pasqua's phone recorded a conversation in the car with his son Domenico Claudio and a woman : «Giuseppe Pasqua stated that in his opinion Mario Ursini (a leading figure of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta in Turin) had suffered undeserved treatment" writes the investigating judge. In detail – says Pasqua «talking about a dead boy» who would have been invited to a dinner «but they had already dug the grave».
A trap? The mystery is open because cases of white lupara - murders par excellence - are never prescribed. Of course, it is surprising that that of Rocco Vincenzo Ursini remained essentially unavenged: a unicum in the history of the Calabrian mafia . None of his (mafioso, so many) family reacted or at least nothing in this sense was recorded in the countless investigations that followed his assassination. There is no wiretap in which people close to him claimed what happened as an affront. Not even this.
Yet the characters - by kinship - close to this story are not at all secondary. « Mario Ursini – writes Ros – has been one of the main protagonists of Piedmontese organized crime since the 1980s ». Justice collaborator Rocco Varacalli says of him: «He was the historic head of the 'ndrangheta in Turin, at the time of the presence of the Mazzaferro and Belfiore families as well as, in the 1990s, when in Turin there was a single "local" represented in Polsi right from Ursini." Not only that: a relative of the deceased (as well as another nephew of Mario Ursini) is also Renato Macrì , born Renatino, a man of luxury (especially in clothing) and not unbecoming relationships in Turin civil society.
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Ranking mafioso. He remains his CV outlined by the Carabinieri: «He began his criminal career in the 1980s as a supporter of his uncle Mario. Convicted several times for drug trafficking, usury, extortion and other serious crimes, he was subject to the application of a sentence, at the request of the parties, of one year and eight months for mafia-type association »we read. There's more: at the time of his disappearance, Rocco Ursini was the fiancé of Rocco Schirripa's daughter, definitively sentenced to life imprisonment for having played a role in the commando group that went into action on 26 June 1983 in via Sommacampagna (he denies ed. ) and killed the prosecutor Bruno Caccia.
So far, the interceptions that emerged in other proceedings had opened a trail on a family originally from the Goia Tauro plain, Delianuova to be precise. But official protests have never been raised against the Italians. Nor was a further wiretap captured in the "Crime" investigation which referred to alleged drug debts accumulated by Ursini the real motive.
Finally: the victim's alleged nightlife - including frequenting nightclubs - would have come into conflict with the strict rules of Calabrian crime . A question of pseudo "honor" canceled out, in logic, by the family pedigree of Ursini who would never have been killed like this, like an 'Ndrangheta boy. The mystery remains thick.
https://www.lastampa.it/torino/2024...a_bianca_nuove_intercettazioni-14242440/
