Carlo's body and the autopsy
What happened to Carlo's body after he was shot is another important aspect of our inquiry. What is striking, firstly, is how and when the forensic police carried out its tests and measurements in piazza Alimonda.
Misteri d'Italia reports that the latter were only carried out on the 22nd July and that this was implicitly justified by the fact that the bullet which killed Carlo was never found. However, as one can see from this clip from Solo Limoni (
these tests were already being carried out whilst the body was being removed and small placards were being placed around the scene of Carlo's death. Why were these measurements carried out on the 22nd if they had already been taken on the 20th of July? Or why were these tests carried out in two phases if they could all have been done in one go? Why was the bullet not found on the 20th? The timer on the Solo Limoni video shows that Carlo's body was taken away between 6:45 p.m. and 7 p.m. and this time coincides with the one given by the first news reports. 
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A wide space surrounding Carlo's body was closed off by an impenetrable cordon of policemen for 1 hour and 40 minutes after his death. 
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Did nobody look for such an important element as the empty cartridge case during such a long space of time? There was enough time to find some sawdust to cover the blood and for a number of policemen and doctors to mill around. An electrocardiogram was even carried out on Carlo's body to confirm his death, as testified by the instruments which were stuck to his body for a long time as he was left lying, uncovered, on the asphalt in piazza Alimonda...
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Carlo's body reached the hospital at 7:15 p.m., but, as his family has testified, they were only informed of his death late at night (i.e. at 11 p.m.). Someone even answered Carlo's mobile phone at 9 p.m., when his sister Elena rang up, and lied to her to reassure her (interview with Elena). A number of objects fell out of Carlo's pockets when he fell, but his mobile was not among these. This means that just before the autopsy was carried out, and probably not in the presence of a magistrate, Carlo was searched, his mobile was found and, strangely, turned on.
However, a number of witnesses who were present at the hospital and who posted their messages on the web or were interviewed point to a series of even more disquieting facts. Carlo's body, according to every source, arrived at the hospital at 7:15 p.m., but the CAT carried out on his chest is dated as though it had been carried out at 6:50 p.m. The CAT on his head, on the other hand, appears to have been carried out at 7:50 p.m. The following anonymous account appeared on the Indymedia Italy web-site (www.italy.indymedia.org) on the days following Carlo's death:
"A small note by an inhabitant of Genoa, 9:01 a.m. Wed Aug 29/01. What follows is not proven but the result of hearsay; I don't know its primary source so be sceptical about its content. I know a paramedic who works at the Galliera [hospital] and he told me that there are suggestions circulating among the staff that Carlo's X-rays were substituted and/or manipulated. I don't know why they were manipulated (if this is true in the first place), but I can imagine that it was done to let off the caramba [a rather denigrative diminutive of carabiniere] [Cavataio] who waited till his worthy colleague [Placanica or whoever actually shot] gave him a chance to try out the car's shock absorbers".
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Carlo's body and the autopsy |
Before the shot: the police charge
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
But this is not everything.