On June 17, 1983, at 4:30 a.m., the Carabinieri knocked on the door of a room in the Hotel Plaza in Rome, on Via del Corso. Thus began one of the most incredible news in Italian history. Enzo Tortora, a very famous TV journalist, host of Portobello, a program that aired on Friday nights and was followed by over 20 million viewers, was arrested on charges of being a member of the Camorra and being a drug dealer, friend and accomplice of the most famous bosses of the organized crime of the 1980s. The stories of two pentiti, Pasquale Barra, called ‘o animali, and Giovanni Pandico, called ‘o Pazzo, spoke against him.
The two new episodes of Investigations tell of questions that weren’t asked, of penitents vowing death on each other, of a rubber band that snapped and forced a woman to retreat to a corner where she saw things, she then said she shouldn’t have seen it. But also crocheted doilies by prisoners, evenings at the Milan Derby Club, money from the 1980 earthquake, newspapers that made it all up, and four years of a legal battle that, when told today, seems impossible.
The two episodes are available from today in the Post app (download here), but also on the most important podcast platforms such as Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and Google Podcasts. Indagini releases a new story on the first day of each month, with the next coming out on March 1st.