The Court of Assizes of Rome on Tuesday sentenced to life imprisonment Raul Esteban Calderon, the Argentine citizen found guilty of the murder of Fabrizio 'Diabolik' Piscitelli, the Lazio ultra killed in an ambush in Rome in August 2019. The killer was not found to have used mafia methods.
Piscitelli was nicknamed after the cult comics antihero.
The mafia-style hit is believed to have been part of a feud among members of far-right Roman organized crime, political and ultra circles.
Anti-mafia prosecutors had charged Calderon with premeditated murder aggravated by mafia methods as well as illegal weapons possession.
Calderon has also been indicted for the murder of another alleged member of Rome's criminal underworld, Albanian Shehay Selavdi, at Torvajanica on 20 September 2020, along with other suspected criminals Enrico Bennato and Giuseppe Molisso, who allegedly helped Calderon carry out the murder.
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