What happens on the jeep
If what happens outside the jeep is pretty clear, what actually takes place within the vehicle is still a mystery. The most important points are, I believe, the following:

a. What was the position of the men on the jeep? The photos we have analysed highlight a series of incongruent details. In all the photos we possess which are shot up to the moment when the first shot was fired the man who is shooting is on the right-hand side of the Defender, whilst there is no-one on the left.
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b. The other man, or the other two men, must be on the right-hand side as well or on the floor of the vehicle. If we analyse Ricci's video carefully, however, one may note that the second shot was fired from a pistol which is sticking out of the left-hand side of the rear window. The flash from the first shot also lights up the small window on the left of the jeep. . All the photos we have analysed relative to the moments after the second shot also highlight the fact that whoever is holding the pistol is on the left-hand side of the Defender. The man is lying down, probably because he has fallen over backwards after losing his balance subsequent to the jeep passing over Carlo's body for the first time.
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c. Thus there are two different possibilities regarding who actually fired the shots: if the same person shot both bullets, then he must have shot the first on the right-hand side of the vehicle and then moved to the left. The other option is that two different people opened fire with an interval of a couple of seconds between the shots. If the first hypothesis is correct this would demonstrate a cold-bloodedness and a level of experience which Placanica, who asserts he panicked, cannot have possessed and demonstrated in those moments. If the second hypothesis is correct, on the other hand, then it is no longer obvious that Placanica fired the first shot [the one which actually killed Carlo]. We can doubt that Placanica fired the first shot without even having to decide whether the man holding his head with his hand in Asch's close-up is Placanica or not. The angle from which the film is shot could have distorted our perception of the side(s) from which the shots were fired, but what appears to be evident if the same man shot both bullets is that the latter was a skilled shooter who could shoot whilst moving from one position to another to defend himself and who was able to choose the best angle to fire. The second shot, on the other hand, appears to have been fired at random, so as to be able to assert after the events that he had to shoot Carlo after his first shot into the air had been ignored.

b) d. Who is the man in Asch's close-up? Placanica has always vehemently asserted that he alone is solely responsible for what happened, so much so that when judge Silvio Franz underscored the fact that the two empty cartridge cases could have been fired from different pistols, Placanica's lawyer immediately affirmed that the latter was the only person who shot from the jeep. The second series of ballistic tests carried out on Placanica's pistol, which was not carried out by an independent expert but by the Police's Forensic Unit in Palermo [Sicily's main city. Note: Placanica is Sicilian], allegedly proved that both empty cartridge cases were compatible with Placanica's firearm.

The man holding his head in Asch's close-up is also very similar to the photo of Placanica which was taken when he arrived at the Galliera hospital on the evening of the 20th July. Another series of observations follows from this:

1. Placanica's statement (Data)( is not compatible with what appears to be happening to the man with the pistol in all the photos and videos we possess;

2. Placanica is wounded in the head, but this could not have happened to the man holding the pistol as no demonstrator got anywhere near enough to have hit him and least of all in the way Placanica describes in his statement;

3. Monai insists that he hit a carabiniere who was sitting in the back seat facing the crowd behind the vehicle in the chest, but this is not plausible. The wooden plank enters the jeep at such an angle that this could only have happened if the man who was allegedly hit by Monai had been sitting just behind the driver's seat on the left-hand side of the Defender with his chest facing the window which Monai hit with the plank, but, from the photos I have analysed, there is no-one sitting in that position.
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Carta [a left-wing magazine] asserts that Monai declared, when interviewed, that he hit a carabiniere on the head repeatedly. I think Carta's version is the most plausible. Thus, if the only carabiniere who suffered a head injury was Placanica, Placanica cannot be responsible for the shots as he was sitting between the man who was actually shooting and the jeep's front seats, in the centre of the right-hand side of the jeep.

e. To synthesise: there appear to be three men in the back seats of the jeep, Placanica, Raffone and another mysterious carabiniere. Placanica is sitting on the right-hand side of the vehicle and he is leaning towards the front seats with his face towards the rear window. He does not move from this position and is hit repeatedly by Monai. Raffone is lying on the floor of the jeep and Placanica protects him from Monai's plank by shielding him with his body. At the beginning "Mister X" is sitting near Placanica on the right-hand side, on the seat nearest the rear door of the jeep, but he then moves rapidly (and in a way which seems to highlight the fact that he is somewhat experienced) to the left where he shoots twice, once from the inside of the vehicle and once actually holding the pistol out of the rear window.
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This explains the fact that one of the empty cartridge cases was found inside the jeep whilst the other was lying outside the latter. The Giuliani family's lawyer, Mr. Pisapia, affirms that Placanica's pistol may have been manipulated after the event, and this only strengthens our hypothesis.

Preamble	Before the shot: the police charge	The flight
Carlo's death	Who was on the jeep	What happens on the jeep
The armoured vehicle in via Torino	Cavataio's responsibilities	Placanica, the man without a face
Placanica in hospital	Carlo's body and the autopsy	But this is not everything.