The killer had completely broken ties with family members, acquaintances and a few friends. Only the Dighera were looking for a relationship
RIVAROLO CANAVESE. The killer is not dead. His steady hand which, with absolute coldness, exploding four shots took the lives of as many innocent people by crushing their heads, trembled and failed when the barrel was turned against itself.
But now, hospitalized in a hospital bed, Renzo Tarabella is less scary, no longer arouses the fear that timidly, those who knew him, confessed in the reports of the Arma investigators.
“He has always been a man with a shady character and with age he has worsened”, say now those same neighbors who on Sunday spoke of “shy person, simply reserved” with whom “they had cordial relations”.
Now there is talk of “heralded tragedy”, of a “man who had segregated his wife and child”, of “a story with the ending already written” in an apartment building where if a pan falls you can hear it from the fourth to the second floor, but no one, Saturday night, he heard at least five gunshots.
Of course, the crazy action of the 83-year-old pensioner could not be stopped in advance by the relatives.
The killer’s wife, Maria Grazia Valovatto, 79, retired, known and married in Cuorgnè where she was a worker at the Manufacture, had been forced to no longer contact her relatives, for no apparent reason. His last official release from the home dates back to 6 November 2020 when he participated in Favria at the funeral of his brother Roberto “Bubu” Valovatto, 75, a man of sport and business, who often confided to his friends his sadness for not being able to deal with Wilson, the disabled son of Maria Grazia and Renzo. Reason? He quarreled precisely with the pensioner: “Bubu” sunny, brilliant and sometimes Gascon character had never tied up with the shady Renzo but he too once confided that «that gun that was going around the house made him fear a tragedy».
The same feeling that Liliana Heidempergher, 70, a victim with her husband of the massacre, a retired teacher, beloved by her former students of the Immaculate Conception in via Trieste in Rivarolo, had confided to her daughter Francesca, a journalist and also a teacher.
“I don’t want Osvaldo to go down to Renzo’s to collect the rent: the last time there was a gun next to the envelope with the money,” he said. Osvaldo Dighera, retired, 74 years old, a former Salp worker, was now living for his adored three-year-old niece, Caterina Lucia.
Liliana once saw a flash in Renzo Tarabella’s eyes when they met on the landing: it was the day when Piedmont had become the yellow zone. The Dighera family had with them, as always, their lively and cheerful niece.
“That was the look of a man who hates,” Liliana said to her husband.
«Renzo, like us, has been in prison for months and months and it is not easy for him. You have to understand it », Òsvaldo replied.
Now his daughter Francesca remembers that dialogue damn well and goes further: «They took my dad and mom from me. They were executed by a man they had helped. I am devastated by pain ».
That pain that in the clouded mind of the retired murderer was a kind of compensation. For the happiness he hadn’t had as a gift. –