Andrea Cordovani tells the story of the failed kidnapping of Enzo Ferrari in 1975
Is there nonetheless one thing about Enzo Ferrari that has not but been mentioned or written? The doubt at all times lingers, given the immense stature of the person. And today, a completely new story seems in bookstores: the tried kidnapping of Ferrari by the Clan dei Marsigliesi, a felony gang that dominated Italian crime pages for a few years.
Sure, it was certainly the Marsigliesi who deliberate to kidnap probably the most well-known automobile producer, however luckily the plan by no means got here to fruition, although it got here dangerously shut. It was an episode that was by no means mentioned in depth and, on the time – within the autumn of 1975 – was stored utterly silent at Ferrari’s personal request. Andrea Cordovani, editor of Autosprint, after years of analysis, managed to reconstruct each stage of what occurred throughout these days and tells the story in a outstanding 220-page e-book revealed by Minerva (€18), titled “Il Mito da rapire, Enzo Ferrari e l’ombra dei sequestri”. The preface is written by Stefano Tamburini.
Andrea Cordovani immerses the reader within the ambiance of that troubled decade throughout which – in keeping with knowledge from the Ministry of the Inside – there have been as many as 489 kidnappings, culminating within the abduction of Aldo Moro. These had been years of concern and confusion, when the nation was adrift and folks lived in fixed anxiousness. Nobody may really feel actually protected anymore, least of all those that possessed nice wealth reminiscent of entrepreneurs, industrialists, sportsmen, and present enterprise personalities. After which there have been the politicians, who had been focused for fully completely different and infrequently obscure causes.
The one who leads Andrea Cordovani into the main points of the failed Ferrari kidnapping is Dino Tagliazucchi, the driving force of the “Outdated Man,” the one who was at all times by his facet. And so the narrative takes us into the key conferences in Hammamet, Tunisia, the place the Clan dei Marsigliesi deliberate a sequence of kidnappings to be carried out in Italy inside a short while. Amongst their victims had been jeweller Gianni Bulgari, who had even raced Ferraris as a gentleman driver in occasions just like the Targa Florio, and occasional magnate Alfredo Danesi – each finally launched after large ransom funds. The third meant goal was Ferrari himself, probably the most well-known Italian of all, who had been beneath surveillance for a while by males despatched forward by the gang chief, Albert Bergamelli. All the pieces was prepared. The plan was for Enzo Ferrari to be intercepted and kidnapped as he left his barber’s store in Through Canalgrande, Modena, the place he went day-after-day. There have been stakeouts, checks, and day by day surveillance carried out by the gang members aboard an unremarkable Fiat 127 with Varese license plates.
Till in the future, a police officer from the Modena Cellular Unit, Pino Zaccaria, observed unusual actions and suspicious-looking people loitering on the road, pretending to not know each other. Appearing on an intuition, he instantly determined to arrest them each on October 25, 1975 – simply as they had been about to behave, with different accomplices ready close by. They’d been ready for Ferrari to go away the store and head for Maranello, the place a press convention was scheduled for two p.m. to current the 1976 racing programme.
Enzo Ferrari by no means even realised what was occurring only a few metres away from him, because the police discreetly and swiftly intervened. The kidnapping was thwarted, the 2 criminals had been arrested, and all the plan was uncovered. Nevertheless it didn’t finish there. 4 years later, Ferrari confronted one other surprising second: an try and steal the stays of his son Dino from the household tomb. Such occasions go away a deep and lasting mark on a person’s life.
Andrea Cordovani’s e-book brings to mild numerous episodes, coincidences, and collateral particulars that emerge from this story. It reads like a novel – however with actual folks and true occasions.
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