A gunshot to the head in front of a football pitch: this is how Michelangelo Alfano, 65 years old, convicted of mafia association and former president of Messina, decides to end it. And at the stadium
Shortly before the stroke of midnight on November 17, 2005, the press agencies reported a crime story, where it was reported that the entrepreneur Michelangelo Alfano had been found dead in a park in Messina. In the few lines that followed, it was added that the man, according to initial police findings, had shot himself in the head with a 6.35 caliber pistol. The clearing where he had chosen to end it overlooked the football pitch, in the parish of the Rogationist Fathers. Alfano was sixty-five years old and had been convicted of mafia association.