For Mafia-hunter Alfonso Sabella, racing desperately to save a kidnapped 12-year-old, the acid-burned remains of the boy’s bed in front of him were too much to bear.
The scene has haunted him day and night for the past 25 years. “The image is stuck in my head and I can’t get over it,” he says, taking a drag of his cigarette. “The child was only 12.
He was kidnapped because his father was a ‘pentito’ – a police informant. “I went with colleagues when we found he’d been kept in a cave.
There was no body to see. It had been completely dissolved in acid. “All that remained was his bed, burned from the chemicals, where he’d been sleeping.” What do you think?
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