Friday, May 20, 2016

Arrested in Portugal on the catamaran killer: in 1988 killed a skipper from Pesaro. It congratulated the police – The Daily

“Well done, you would not have thought I persecuted to this extent,” he said, smiling to the men of the Police that have captured Wednesday, May 18 to Sintra , 30 km Lisbon , catamaran killer . Sentenced in 1988 to life in prison in a final for killing and corpse concealment, Pippo De Cristofaro was processed twice. The last in 2014. “There are those who are looking for”, he tried to deny the man who in 1988 killed with machetes the 34-year old skipper from Pesaro Annarita Curina to appropriate his catamaran and escape with the lover in Polynesia. The woman’s body was found by the crew of a fishing vessel to Senigallia 28 July 1988: it had been weighted with an anchor of 17 kilos. The murder occurred on June 10, when the then Dutch lover man, Diana Beyer , 17 years old at the time, stabbed the woman to the side while De Cristofaro finished it. The arrest was possible thanks to cooperation between people of Ancona , those of Central Operations Service of the State Police , the Portuguese police and the Eurojust .

When on board there was also a Dutch friend of the couple, Pieter Gronendijk , 27, then sentenced only for the theft of the catamaran because foreign to the crime. The three were traced to Tunisia , as they tried to flee. The 17 year old was sentenced by the Juvenile court to six and a half years in prison for complicity in murder: he served 15 months because it got parole and assignment to a community of Grosseto . At first instance, the “catamaran killer” was imposed a sentence of 30 years, turned into life imprisonment on appeal.

However, twice De Cristofaro had managed to escape from prison. The first dates back to 2007, when the Institute dealt with the Opera . They found him at Utrecht , just the city where Diana lived. The second is in April 2014: taking advantage of a bonus granted permission to three days over Easter in a community of Portoferraio , did not return to the prison in Porto Azzurro , on ‘ Elba , where he was detained. Portugal could soon grant extradition.

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