Madrid/The Italian Mario Pontolillo has been officially identified as accused of the Multiple outrage that ended the life of Mairovis Valier Heredia and left eight injured in Havana on August 25. The Attorney General of the Republic made a note public disseminated by the official media in which he points out the man as investigated for “crimes of murder and others, after deliberately running over several people with their public roads from the municipalities Centro Habana and Havana Vieja.”
The information comes a day after 14ymedio published that the person detained at the scene was The Italian businessman Berto Savina – known as Bartolomeo Sabina Tito on the island–, president of the Itrsav conglomerate and numerous businesses in Cuba for more than 30 years. A knowledgeable source of the event, which asked to maintain anonymity, assured this newspaper that the owner of the Dollar Casalinda dollars and closely linked to the Cuban regime “is being treated by an apartment that deals with the VIP.”
This Thursday, however, Savina talked through video call with 14ymedio From Italy, where he claimed to be since August 19, and repeatedly said he was not involved in the case. The businessman showed this newspaper documentation – in order not to make himself public – that he proved a flight between Havana and Madrid that Monday, just a week before the outrage.
Savina talked through video call with ’14ymedio’ from Italy, where he claimed to be since August 19, and repeatedly said not being involved in the case
Faced with these allegations, 14ymedio He checked again the version of his source, which is reiterated in the above. Air Europa plane tickets only confirm that the businessman was in Havana between August 9 and 18. In no case constitute a proof that there were not a week later in Cuba, where it resides part of the year to serve their businesses.
The Prosecutor’s Office affirms that Pontolillo, 56 and permanent resident in Cuba – specifically in Cienfuegos, where he has lived for ten years, is the person arrested for “this reproachable act [que] It caused the unfortunate death of a woman, injuries to several people and put collective security at risk. ”
The note indicates that the accused is in provisional imprisonment and with a prohibition of abandoning the territory while the instruction continues in order to collect the necessary evidence that allows the end of the investigation. “The Prosecutor’s Office, with full respect for the rights and guarantees that enshrine the Constitution and the laws of the Republic, will exercise the public criminal action before the competent court, and will request sanctions in correspondence with the seriousness of the facts and the circumstances in which they occurred,” the text continues, which defends that the institution acts firmly “in defense of the legality and security of all Cubans.”
Among the reactions to the note, reproaches have abounded to the delay in publishing the information about the detainee. Independent media and many users of social networks question the official version. “The case, which combines tragedy, rumors, official silence and struggles of power, keeps the Italian community on the island in suspense,” Mario Pentón summarizes in Martí News.
The family of Mairovis Valier Heredia, the victim of the event, has passed around ten days waiting for information and asking for justice for what happened, but has not had information until the moment when the regime has reacted
The family of Mairovis Valier Heredia, the victim of the event, has passed around ten days waiting for information and asking for justice for what happened, but has not had information until the moment in which the regime has reacted to the publication of 14ymedio. Inalbis Heredia, relative of the deceased, said On Facebook That the person responsible for the outrage was a 57 -year -old Italian named Mario Pontolillo, who was accompanied by a photo. In a comment to Post of this newspaper where the information was disseminated, written four hours before the Reel Inalbis and now erased, another user pointed out that he knew that Mario was called but that he did not remember the last name.
The residents of the surroundings of El Vedado were the first to warn 14ymedio that the aggressor was an Italian owner of a Red Audi who rammed several passersby after an argument in which shouts were heard. In addition, they claim that he was known “for being a drug consumer.” None wanted to give the name of the alleged culprit after the authorities announced the arrest of the “foreign citizen residing in the country.” “They take care of it so much because there must be something,” said a resident in the area.
Pontolillo, former agent of the Italian police and military body of Carabinieri, appeared in 2019 in the program to every engine to talk about the Moto one hundred recreational cultural project, As the digital recalled CIBERCUBA. In it, the Italian said he was on the island for a desire “to help the Cuban population, to help the human population sometimes from their tornado, is to go out here to give a hand, as a good way that he has to think about everyone.”
