Fabrio Carlino Gets jail in connection to marco Pantani death
Fabio Carlino gets to go to jail for 4 1/2 years after being found guilty of dealing drugs and contributing to the death of Tour de France winner Marco Pantani. The family of Marco Pantani has announced that in addition to the jailing of the former disco manager, the Pantani family will receive approximately 300,000 Euros in damages.
Marco Pantani won the Giro d’Italia in 1998, the same year that he won the Tour de France.
Marco Pantani was found dead in a hotel room in Italy on February 14, 2004 having overdosed on cocaine.
Despite the closure that comes with the court’s decision to jail Carlino, Pantani’s mother Tonina is still searching for answers about her son’s death. “There’s still a lot of mystery surrounding Marco’s death,” she declared to La Gazzetta dello Sport. “First of all what happened between February 9, when my son bought the cocaine, and February 14, [when] he died of a lung and brain oedema. In those five days other people and other substances were probably involved.
“Why did they remove his heart during the autopsy, why didn’t they take fingerprints and what about the marks on his body?” she queried.
The court’s decision comes a day after news that the prosecutor of Forlì (Emilia-Romagna) would open a new investigation into the death of ‘Il Pirata’ based up on the supposed betting that occurred in the final stages of the 1999 Giro d’Italia.
“That is the end of the matter for now,” family lawyer Danilo Mastrocinque told Reuters after the verdict was handed down. “We will see about the future.”
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