Other than the “War of the Roses”. There was a deep, almost visceral hatred that had long divided Enzo Lorenzon from his ex-wife Margherita Ceschin. The spark which however would have pushed the man to have the woman killed in her home in Conegliano on 23 June was born from a specific fact: a report from her to the Nas police.
The tensions
But let’s start from the beginning: the tensions arose after the decision of Ceschin, 72 years old, to interrupt the marriage with Lorenzon, 80 years old, for his repeated betrayals which were regularly discovered with big fights. And the woman, who had spent her life alongside the man, also contributing to her successes in the business of her agricultural business, had decided to make him pay dearly. Initially he had asked for a super maintenance allowance, first set by the Treviso court at 15 thousand euros per month, then reduced to 10 thousand. Then he had a property foreclosed on registered to her ex-husband with a value of half a million. And finally a whirlwind of cross-complaints began: she had reported him for injuries and mistreatment, he for embezzlement.
Control of the Nas
What triggered the acrimony that Enzo felt towards Margherita and which would have made him lose his temper to the point of commissioning her killing by a group of Dominicans, would have been an inspection by the Anti-Sophistication Unit of the Carabinieri in his winery sent by the woman. On that occasion the military discovered that Lorenzon he would have used grapes that were not exactly of high quality. Also on that occasion, Ceschin, who knew all the secrets of the family business, threatened him several times that he would also receive an investigation from the Financial Police. In the same period Lorenzon would have had an extramarital relationship with a woman from Puglia to whom he would have asked – the woman told the investigators – if she knew “someone from the underworld” willing to eliminate his ex-wife or teach her a stern lesson. So far the reconstructions of the Prosecutor’s Office. But these facts could soon find confirmation in the statements of one of the alleged killers, the 38-year-old Dominican Sergio Lorenzo, who on June 3 said he wanted to answer the questions of the public prosecutor Michele Permunian to confess his version of events. And the same decision could also be taken by Enzo Lorenzon and another Dominican, the 42-year-old Juan Maria Guzman (both defended by the lawyer Fabio Crea) who according to the investigators would have played the role of intermediary.
The interrogations
The turning point came last Monday, the day on which the deadlines for interrogations expired since the investigations against the three had been closed 20 days earlier. However, the positions of Jose Mateo Garcia, who would be Ceschin’s other murderer, of Joel Lorenzo – who would have acted as a lookout and who is still wanted – and of Kendy Maria Rodriguez, Joel’s girlfriend, believed to be an intermediary and under investigation at large. Everyone is accused of voluntary, premeditated and aggravated murder. Faced with the solid circumstantial framework in the hands of the investigators, made up of both telephone interceptions as well as the note written in prison by Lorenzo, addressed to Lorenzon but which ended up in the hands of the investigators, and the phrases with which the 38-year-old spoke to a cellmate of the millionaire compensation (in addition to the purchase of properties in the Dominican Republic) promised by her ex-husband for the crime, the Caribbean (defended by the lawyer Mauro Serpico) in short, he would have decided to tell “his” truth on June 23 last year, when the 72-year-old was killed and suffocated and her ribcage was also smashed. «We certainly expect him to tell the truth – said Treviso prosecutor Marco Martani. Moreover, the circumstantial evidence we have on him is very solid.”
