1974

March 24, Milan
Lucio Terminiello, 31 years old, bank employee

Zorzi was an investigating judge from 1984 to 1993. After nine years of investigative activity, at the age of 41 he decided to leave the front line and become a public prosecutor in the Court of Appeal. He is aware of having done his duty to the end. And he has the satisfaction of having contributed to shedding light, after years of darkness and mystery, at least on a very serious bloody event that occurred on the night of 24 March 1974 in the Lambro Park in Milan: the senseless murder of Lucio Terminiello, a man that he had been wrong to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Terminiello was killed with three shots from a long .22 caliber Beretta, by a killer he didn’t know and who didn’t know him: Marco Pastori. A minor fascist, who during the night, while waiting for a fence with whom he had an appointment at Lambro Park, after an argument with a passer-by lost control and shot him. The next day, Pastori used the same gun in a raid against the “reds” at the student house in Milan: he shot, accidentally hit a nine-year-old girl, Chiara Antona, in the pelvis, then dropped the weapon while fleeing. At this point, the investigators could have understood from the weapon found that whoever had injured Chiara had also killed Terminiello. But to prevent the connection between the two facts, the evidence was contaminated and the barrel of the gun lost in front of the Student House was replaced with another. Only a decade later, in 1985, Zorzi discovered the truth, when he collected the testimonies of Alessandro Danieletti, the comrade who was with Pastori both on the night of the shooting at Lambro Park and during the raid the following day.