Roberto Basso’s tobacco shop in Piazza Marina in Jesolo Lido was seized. Although the 64-year-old from Jesolo was found dead at his home in the countryside of Via Antiche Mura, investigators are expanding their investigations to the seaside area, where the 64-year-old had been running his small business for forty years. His older brother, Andrea, raised the alarm on Monday morning. He had gone to look for him because he was not responding and after trying in vain to enter the house, he managed to see Roberto’s body from a small open window, going to warn his sister Francesca. Suem and the carabinieri arrived after 11am and with the confirmation of death and the discovery of the blunt force wound to the back of the head, the forensic investigations began.
All hypotheses open
Surveys, traces, photos. In the house and in the small garage adjacent to the house the soldiers inspected everywhere, even the white railing that goes from the ground floor to the first of the large house, where Roberto Basso once lived with his mother until about ten years ago, single, introverted, reserved. Investigations were also carried out in the garage where he apparently kept some work tools, while on Monday the drone was searched over the fields for the object used to wound the tobacconist in the back of the head. The evening before the discovery of the body Basso was in the shop, even though it was Sunday. Alessandro Gastaldi, owner of the mini market in front of Basso for ten years, remembers it well. It was a special day. Ironman 70.3 Venice-Jesolo took place and there was a lot of traffic. «It’s easy that he parked his old Opel Zafira a little further from the tobacconist’s shop, in the little square – says Alessandro – I saw him around 7pm, I went to get 50 euros changed into currency by him. Then we closed and the next day, thinking about his death, I thought that maybe someone had followed him and maybe got into the car. Roberto had no enemies. Affable, kind, helpful, joking, I believe that with the other traders we will organize a worthy memory.”
A life for work
«He had the tobacconist, the Rex hotel in via Caboto co-owned with his brother Andrea and the summer apartments in front of the church in Piazza Trento. He was fine but I can hardly believe that anyone would have noticed Roberto to rob him. He lived like an invisible person. He didn’t look like a wealthy man at all. He raised me – says the forty-year-old son of the ice cream maker in Piazza Marina, Alessandro Pavan – Of everything he earned he spent nothing. He never changed the car or renovated the shop. He didn’t feel the need, it was his way of living: all home, work and savings without even eating a pizza out.” Near the house of his sister Francesca and brother-in-law Luigi Rossi, in via Sebastiano Lega, some neighbors are convinced that the tobacco shop gave Roberto something to live on, but did not make him rich. «If he worked, it was mostly with the lottery and he certainly didn’t have disputes with relatives for economic reasons, because all the properties had already been divided when Roberto’s mother was still alive – they remember – They are good people . He was closed off, he never talked about his private life and perhaps that’s where we need to investigate.”
