That of the Marshal of the Ros Antonio Lombardo was not a suicide and to prove it there is a handwriting expertise that proves that it was not he who wrote the farewell letter delivered to the family. So argue the marshal’s children, Fabio and Rossella, in the request to reopen the investigation into the death of their father, who officially committed suicide in the police station of Palermo in March 1995.
A thesis that family members have never believed. Two investigations, one from 1997 and one from 2015, were opened and closed. But in the course of neither of the two – underlines Fabio Lombardo today – a calligraphic appraisal was arranged on what for years was considered his farewell letter. But recently family members have done so and the conclusions of criminologist and forensic graphologist Valentina Pierro could represent a new turning point in the investigation. “Some points of commonality have emerged, as regards the general characteristics of the writings, but not as regards the more particular signs, indicative of the writer’s personality”, we read in the nine pages of the request for reopening investigations signed by the lawyer Alessandra Maria Delrio of the Sassari forum, which assists the Lombardo brothers.
“We want to know – says Fabio – what happened that day, and what led to my father’s death. There are too many oddities in the whole affair. From the first moment, since his lifeless body was found”. The statements of the alleged eyewitnesses are strange and contradictory – summarizes the lawyer Alessandra Maria Delrio of the Sassari forum, the circumstances in which that crime matured are incomprehensible and moreover, the compatibility of the position of the body with that of the ogive of the bullet found in the car.
And then, adds the marshal’s son, there are those cryptic promises that his father would have made to Paolo Borsellino’s widow, Agnese Piraino Leto, announcing that he would soon bring her “on a silver tray the truth about her death. husband”. So, as he told her years before that he would capture the boss Riina to avenge the judge’s death. “And he did,” says the son.
The meaning of those few lines of an alleged farewell letter remains completely obscure. “I kill myself so as not to give satisfaction to those in charge of having me killed and passing myself off as sold and mainly in order not to endanger the life of my wife and my children” read on that white sheet, which remained immaculate despite being, at least officially, found next to the marshal’s body. “I have nothing to reproach myself for since I have been loyal to the weapon for thirty-one years and, although I have come to this point, I would do everything I have done. The key to my delegitimization lies in travel Americans “was the bitter, how dark end of that short note.
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