Turin businessman and wife killed in ambush in Colombia

Roberto Gaiottino, a 44-year-old construction contractor from Barbania, and his wife Claudia Patricia Zabala Dominguez, 36, were killed Saturday evening in Colombia at the exit of a restaurant on Circunvalar de Pereira Avenue in Risaralda, the city of Claudia Patricia.

The two, married since 2015 but together for a longer time, had just had dinner with a Colombian friend who remained unharmed in the shooting, which caused panic among passers-by. On the matter the federal police excludes robbery, leaning towards a targeted ambush.

Roberto Gaiottino belongs to a dynasty of building contractors who has long expanded the interests of his business to Colombia, while Claudia lived in Italy - in Barbania - for 15 years and often returned to Colombia to find family members. The bodies will be repatriated for the funeral in Barbania where the couple, who had no children, lived in a villa in the center.