Lamezia, the Aversa case on 6 May on Rai Uno in the ‘Cose Nostre’ program

Lamezia Terme – The first episode of the new season of Cose Nostre, the program hosted by Emilia Brandi broadcast on Monday, will be dedicated to the double murder of the superintendent of the State Police, Salvatore Aversa and his wife Lucia Precenzano, killed in Lamezia Terme on 4 January 1992. 6 May on Rai Uno at 11.30pm. The program tells the stories of women and men who opposed the blind violence of the mafias by doing their duty and paying with their lives. In the episode on Monday 6 May, guests will be Walter Aversa, eldest son of the murdered couple, the magistrate Giancarlo Bianchi, the journalist Gianfranco Manfredi and the former manager of the Lamezia police station, Doctor Antonino Surace of whom Salvatore Aversa was a close collaborator. Surace’s statements are relevant and, as anticipated during an interview with Lametino. it, will not hesitate to stigmatize the solitude in which Aversa was left and the heavy climate that existed in the city due to the suffocating presence of the gangs, so much so that Surace will speak of “a political-mafia murder”.

“Salvatore Aversa – Surace will say – in the last months of his life he was very worried. He was left alone and exposed against the mafia and the political-mafia power. Nobody supported him openly. The manager had to support him…he was left alone there. And my concern, knowing the environment, was that when a policeman or a citizen is left alone, he is left in the lurch.” Aversa was investigating the relationship between politics and members of the gangs, contributing to the information that led to the dissolution of the City Council due to the mafia in 1991, as well as the double murder of the street cleaners Pasquale Cristiano and Francesco Tramonte which occurred on 24 May 1991. His presence in the episode was significant by Walter Aversa which retraces the life of his parents, his father’s professional career and his commitment to fighting the mafia up to that extreme sacrifice for which Walter and his brothers still ask to know the truth in full.

B.C