Two 7.65 caliber revolver shots from close range directly to the head: one bullet grazed the neck and the other hit the eye region. Roberto Di Martino (in the criminal world understood as “u cuzzularu”) is miraculously alive. He risks losing his right eye but his life is not in danger. He is hospitalized at the “Guzzardi” hospital in Vittoria where yesterday the doctors did everything they could to extract the bullet lodged in the part of his right eye. “A “dynamic” April 25th – as defined by the police commissioner Vincenzo Trombadore, on the day that celebrates the liberation from Nazi-fascism. But not by the mafia, if it is true that yesterday morning’s shooting which took place in the countryside near the Vittoria cemetery has all the hallmarks of a mafia-style ambush. In fact, to coordinate the investigations conducted by the Ragusa Police Headquarters, by the Flying Squad led by Andrea Monaco and by the police station directed by Giovanni Arcidiacono, the magistrates of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate arrived from Catania.
From the investigative front, news arrives slowly. Because the maximum effort is being made to close the circle around the shooter, to identify the motive and to avoid disclosing details that could frustrate the investigators’ work. The only certainty, the caliber of the victim. Roberto Di Martino had his criminal baptism at the time of Operation Squalo, November 28, 1994, enlisted in the fire group of the mafia organization linked to the infamous Carbonaro-Dominante clan. He later became a collaborator with justice like many other affiliates of that period. 30 years after those events, he returned to his hometown like many other former collaborators. What did he do and why did they try to eliminate him? The investigators are working on this question. Di Martino has always gravitated to the world of agriculture and specifically to the agricultural product transport sector.
