Morning of interrogations in prison yesterday (Friday 24 May) for Giuseppe and Mauro Di Gaetano. Father and son, 70 and 42 years old, are accused of voluntary murder aggravated by having acted with cruelty for the death of Davide Buzzi, and the attempted murder of Piccinini.
After the notice of closure of the investigations against them, the two suspects asked to be heard by prosecutor Barbara Cavallo, holder of the file.
The first to speak, in chronological order, was the father, assisted by the lawyers Stefano Scafidi and Giulia Zerpelloni. Over an hour of interrogation, starting from 10.30 am, in which “ample space – reports the defense – was given to his version of events and the reconstruction of what happened” on the night of September 1, 2023 inside the bar Big Town, in via Bologna in Ferrara.
Giuseppe Di Gaetano answered all the questions, his lawyers report, which were posed to him by the deputy prosecutor.
After him it was his son’s turn. Mauro Di Gaetano spoke for about an hour “to clarify some circumstances – explains his lawyer, Michele Ciaccia – which from our point of view had not emerged in their entirety in the other interrogations”.
Yesterday, in fact, was the fourth interrogation carried out by the two suspects. The first dates back to the moment of the arrest. The second, the guarantee one, before the investigating judge. The third was requested by the prosecutor’s office.
With the images of the video recorded by the internal surveillance cameras of the venue “we have reconstructed some moments of what happened that night, as far as possible considering some gray areas not captured by the mechanical eye”.
The suspect reportedly said that he didn’t imagine that Buzzi would keep his promise and return to the pub, which was still full of people and began to threaten the owner and parent.
“Ours – adds Ciaccia – was an attempt to bring an emotional contribution to the explanation of what happened”.
