Sarzana, 9 June 2024 – He had hired a killer For kill wife And mother in law. A criminal plan which fortunately did not come to fruition, because the hitman hired by him, he had told the whole story to the police in December 2021.
Hence the arrest of the instigator, Nicola Zangani49 years old, entrepreneur originally from Tresana but resident in Sarzanafinished below process and definitively sentenced by the Court of Cassation to 7 years and 6 months in prison for attempted murder, with perpetual disqualification from holding public office, legal disqualification during the sentence and suspension of parental rights.
He was sentenced on 23 March 2023 at first instance by the Court of La Spezia to a 13-year sentence, then reduced to 7 years and 6 months by the Court of Appeal of Genoa in February this year: yesterday, after the ruling by the Supreme Court, as the sentence became executable, the carabinieri of the Sarzana radiomobile unit (who had handled the investigations from the early stages) arrested him while he was under house arrest in his mother’s home in Aulla, to take him to prison in Spezia where he will finish serving his sentence.
The 49 year old Lunigiana, for economic reasons, he had hired a hitman to have his wife and mother-in-law killed in exchange for 30 thousand euros. According to the plan, the hitman was supposed to simulate a car accident by ramming the two women’s car along a mountain road, at a pre-established point without guardrails, to make them go off the road after they had dropped the children off at school. Zangani had provided him with photos of the women, of the house, the license plates of the used cars and had personally accompanied him to carry out the inspection, indicating where to strike and where to go to evade the municipal video surveillance system. The day established for the double crime was set for 13 December 2021. On this occasion, the 49-year-old from Lunigiana would have procured an alibi by ensuring that he was in Pistoia for work by having his license plate ‘registered’ on the motorway and then having dinner in a restaurant. together with friends.
The person hired to commit the murder, rather than implementing the criminal plan, had gone to the barracks to tell everything to the police, who immediately started investigations coordinated by the deputy prosecutor Elisa Loris. When the instigator met the hitman in Falcinello to give him a deposit, the arrest was made. Zangani remained in prison until February this year, when he was placed under house arrest with an electronic bracelet. Now, at the end of the judicial process, the doors of the La Spezia prison have opened again, where he will have to remain until 11 June 2029.
