Italy: – You killed the wrong man

In July 2000 Giulio Giacio (26) was kidnapped by people posing as policemen. He was then killed by a shot to the head – before his body decomposed in acid.

Only the teeth were left behind, Giacio said, but the killers were said to have smashed them with a hammer to erase all traces.

It is said that the reason for his murder was that he had an affair with the sister of a member of the Polverino mafia clan, based in Marano di Naples and part of the so-called Camorra in the Campania region of southern Italy.

She refused the offers of the mafia

The “problem” was just that the Mafia got the wrong guy: Giaccchio had nothing to do with the case, but had simply been mistaken for another man.

Now – almost 23 years later – the mafia has apologized for the confusion, writes the Italian Vanity Fair.

In connection with an ongoing trial in Naples, two members of the Poliferino clan are said to have offered Giaccchio’s mother €150,000 in money and property as compensation for the murder.

However, the mother reportedly refused the offer.

– No amount of money can restore Giulio’s life, says the mother’s lawyer, Alessandro Motta, in a statement, prepared by Vanity Fair and several Italian media outlets.

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Dissolving corpses in acid was a frequent method of the Italian mafia for disposing of corpses.

In November 1993, a 12-year-old boy was kidnapped, tortured, killed, and finally dissolved in acid – on the orders of Giovanni Brusca, a chief of the brutal and ruthless Corleone clan in Sicily.

The killing of the boy was in retaliation because his father had explained to the authorities the assassination of Judge Giovanni Falcone.

The Corleone Falcone clan was killed in a highway bombing outside Palermo, the capital of Sicily, on May 23, 1992.