After 10 days, the Attorney General of the Republic reveals the identity of the alleged perpetrator of the multiple outrage that occurred in Havana at dawn on August 25.
Miami, United States. – The Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) finally revealed this Thursday The identity of the alleged perpetrator of the multiple outrage that occurred in Havana at dawn on August 25: it is the Italian citizen Mario Pontolillo, 56, permanent resident in Cuba, now charged “for the alleged commission of crimes of murder and others, after deliberately running over several people with their public roads in the municipalities Centro Habana and Havana Vieja”.
The fact caused the death of a 35 -year -old woman and left several injured.
Independently, through a source close to the Italian embassy in Havana, Cubanet He knew that Pontolillo was stopped because he was the main suspect of the crime, and that the Red Audi used for the massive abuse belonged to him.
In an article published this Thursday, the newspaper 14ymedio I pointed to the 57 -year -old Italian citizen as the alleged commissioner of the crime. According to that medium, “it is an exagent of the Italian body of Carabinieri and, according to its Facebook page, resident in Cienfuegos, not in Havana.”
The Prosecutor’s Office also said that Pontolillo remains under “precautionary measures of provisional imprisonment and prohibition of departure from the national territory.” When the investigation concludes, the FGR “will exercise the public criminal action before the competent court, and will request sanctions in correspondence with the severity of the facts and the circumstances in which they occurred.”
The Ministry of Interior (Minint) had reported after the event that, “in different places” of Havana Vieja and Centro Habana, “a foreign citizen resident in the country, to the helm of a car”, had hit nine people and that had been arrested, but until this Friday, about 10 days later, he had not revealed the identity of the driver, which generated speculations among the Cubans.
The deadly victim It was identified by his family As Mairovis Valier Heredia, 35. The deceased sister – who was injured – affirms in a video broadcast on social networks: “A foreigner threw us, by the way, he threw the car above,” and added that her sister died “leaving (…) three children, homeless, unprotected.”
Meanwhile, Valier Heredia’s mother claimed exemplary sanctions: “I can’t sleep because a foreigner threw the car my daughter above and lost her life” and “I do not sleep or alive, I ask justice. I ask the maximum penalty for that Salao man who made him lose his life to the children, abandoned.” He also denounced: “No one has come to tell me who it is, who was the car or a support of anything.”
The official revelation of the accused identity arrives after 10 days of public speculation. This Wednesday, the independent media 14ymedio assured That the commissioner of the crime was the Italian citizen Berto Savina, owner of several businesses in Cuba associated with the Castro dome, but both official spokesmen of the island and the son of the aforementioned denied the news, who described as “false.”
