Rome, 2 July 2022 – An Italian entrepreneur, owner of a luxury hotel in Palenquelocality in the state of Chiapas in the south of Mexicowas killed in gunshots while he was in his car. The news was reported by local media while in Italy it was the early hours of Saturday. The Italian hotelier, Raphael Alessandro Tunesiis described as an expert in the Mayan culture it’s a well known person from the local community.
Friday 1 July shortly after noon she was on her way to pick up her daughters from school by car when i killer aboard a motorcycle they joined him. “He was riddled with several gunshots”, the investigators in charge of the investigations said. The murder could be related to the racketeering of extortion.
Sources of the Farnesina they communicate that, in coordination with the Italian embassy in Mexico, the investigation into the killing of Tunesi is being monitored “with the utmost attention and commitment” and that “light is shed on the incident”.
Meanwhile, the Attorney General of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas has released more details on the incident, indicating that Tunesi was at the wheel of a BMW when he was attacked by a commando of hitmen on motorcycles who shot him from close range on a dirt road not far from the ‘La Escriba’ school in Palenque.
Police sources indicated that the car was hit by numerous bullets, while “at least three shots” reached the Italian businessman to the body, Transferred to hospital ‘The Italian’, as he was nicknamed, he died shortly after due to the severity of his injuries.
Le investigations started to trace the perpetrators of the crime almost immediately led to the location of the motorcycle used for the abandoned attack, together with unused bullets and some clothes, in an ecotourism area called ‘La Cañada’.
Married for 21 years with Mexican wife named Elizabeth, Tunesi was the father of three daughters to which he had given, in two cases, names of the Mayan culture. Successful businessman as the owner of the Boutique Hotel Quinta Chanabnal supplemented by eight Mayan-style suites, he was a lover of this culture whose epigraphs he could read, also speaking the Chòl dialect as if it were his mother tongue. In 2014 Raphael Tunesi published, together with Antonio Aimi, the volume ‘L’arte Maya’ for Giunti editore.