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Hunt for the alleged murderer of Prato, is considered very dangerous: in 1987 he killed a mafia boss

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The carabinieri of the provincial command of Prato are hunting the man who on the afternoon of Wednesday 24 November in Comeana, a hamlet of the municipality of Carmignano (Prato), in via Boccaccio, with a gun, allegedly shot and killed the 38-year-old Gianni Avvisato, personal trainer, gym manager and most recently waiter and bartender. It is a 55-year-old resident of Florence, Stefano Marrucci, a former football player of the historic Florentine football, known to the police.

To put the investigators of the Arma on his trail of the alleged killer was Andrea Costa, the 35-year-old Florentine, worker and house painter, who a few hours after the crime was detained for complicity in murder by the carabinieri. Costa finds himself locked up in the Prato prison.

Costa, from what has been learned, explained to the investigators that he had accompanied Marrucci in his car to Avvisato’s house. The 55-year-old had escaped from house arrest just to go to Comeana. Costa then claimed that he was not aware of the intentions of Marrucci, to whom he used to act as a driver in exchange for small sums of money, and that he did not know that he was armed, having reluctantly witnessed the shot fired by the 55-year-old with a 9 caliber at Avvisato’s address, fatally wounding him in the groin.

Prato, there is a stop for the man killed in the street: “I was there but I didn’t shoot”


The wanted man has a criminal record ranging from robbery to murder, a crime committed in 1987 in Prato when, for a sentimental affair, he killed the boss of the Catania mafia Agostino Mirabella. Sentenced to 20 years, he escaped in April 1998 and was arrested a month later after a shooting with the carabinieri in Pistoia. In January 2003 in Florence he reduced another man to a very serious condition at the height of a drug-related dispute.

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Marrucci escaped and was arrested in Germany. In 2011, escaped from house arrest, he was intercepted in Florence by the agents of the mobile squad and, in the struggle with one of them, a shot was fired from his gun that wounded the policeman.

The motive for the murder of Gianni Avvisato still remains to be clarified.

Marrucci in 2012 had been investigated for robbery together with the father of the victim of the Comeana murder by the Florentine prosecutor but both were later exonerated. According to investigators, the crime could have accrued from a crime and drug affair: perhaps revenge for an unpaid drug consignment.

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