murder, they charged, she was the brains behind it. not patrizia. gaetana was one of patrizia s defense lawyers. [speaking non-english] translator: auriemma was the one who had taken matters into her own hands and organized the murder and then went to mrs. gucci and said you have to pay or else you would get into trouble. as we did what you went around asking what you should have done. [end of translation] it seems that the defense strategy was to put the blame squarely on to pina. they presented a lead or written by patrizia before she got arrested in which he wrote, if you re looking for who murdered maurizio it was pina auriemma and then she blackmailed me. in fact, the pizzeria owner supported that idea when he testified that on the day before the murder, he d received a call from pina who told him that maurizio had returned to milan from a business trip. the defense argued the call set the stage for the murder.
as equals. that s so interesting. after a two-year investigation into maurizio gucci s murder, prosecutor nocerino was about to try the case of a lifetime. this was the trial of the century in milan. nocerino came to court armed with wiretap at recordings and surveillance footage. he also had a slew of star witnesses including almost all of patrizia s alleged accomplices. the hotel clerk and the pizzeria owner confessed and agreed to testify for the prosecution. the pizzeria owner turned getaway driver told the jury that patrizia met him to make sure he went through with the murder plot. he said i m worried because what if they catch me? and that s when patrizia said don t worry about that, i will give you enough money for you, your children, your children s children, and if they catch you
someone. but who certainly we re capable of making money off of her. [end of translation] pina claimed the plan she cooked up was just a scam, a double cross designed to take patrizia s money not to kill anyone. pina recruited the hotel clerk for one simple reason, he was the only other person she knew in milan and someone who would never commit murder. [speaking non-english] translator: he was not a criminal, he was not a delinquent. he has never seen a gun. his aim was only to trick her. we were hoping that this idea of killing maurizio would disappear from her mind. [end of translation] so the hotel clerk went to the pizzeria owner who needed money to repay his gambling debts. but then the pizzeria owner went to the only small time criminal he knew, the former mechanic, who had a gun. it was at that point according to pina that patrizia who is getting impatient when behind
i was involved in the murder of maurizio gucci. unfortunately for the hotel clerk, he was showing off to a man who was lying about who he really was. which was a nobody. he was just a guy who was broke and he got scared when he heard about the hotel clerks involvement in the gucci murder. so we decided to call the police. and he met with the head of the crime unit right here in this park in milan in the middle of the night. a little bit like a spy movie. as a matter of fact he became a bit of a spy, he agreed to wear a wire so police could find the evidence that the hotel clerk was involved in the gucci murder. the hotel clerk unwittingly introduced the informant to his alleged accomplices. a retired pizzeria owner and a former mechanic. hardly the sort of people who commit assassinations. police started surveilling the gang 24/7 as investigators listened over the next few days, the informants recordings revealed details of the plot to kill maurizio. the pizzeria owner had do