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Enrico Forti (known as Chico), Italian citizen from Trento and US resident in Miami (Florida) for several years, where he carried out entrepreneurial activities, has been accused by American judges to have killed an Australian called Pike, who was the son of an Australian entrepreneur with whom Forti had signed a contract to purchase a hotel complex in Ibiza (Spain).
Forti refers to having defined the contract with Pike's father, who had asked to take his son with him to work in the hotel in order to get the boy used to a new way of life, seeing that his previous lifestyle was not accepted by his father. Forti specifies that the father had therefore requested that the three of them meet in Miami. Forti had organized the arrival of Pike jr. in Miami, to be followed a few days later by his father. Forti picked Pike jr. up from the airport and left him at a car park, where the latter told him that he was going to be picked up by friends where he would stay for a few days. Forti went to the other airport in Miami to meet his father-in-law who had long planned a visit to his daughter and son-in-law.
The morning after, the corpse of Pike jr. was found on a beach some distance from the place where Forti had dropped him off the night before.
Chico was arrested and then let off with two accusations a few days later. The first accusation was of murder, and the second was for fraud in relation to the purchase of the hotel complex with Pike. The second accusation was soon dropped, but the first accusation of murder remained.
Forti was arrested on bail again in October/November 1999, near to the date of his trial, after a year that he had lived a normal life, except for the fact that he was not allowed to leave the U.S. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in June 2000 for the murder of Pike jr. This sentence foresees no possible sanctioning, which means that if Forti is not absolved or reprieved, he will only leave the prison as a dead man.
As evidence shows and according to Forti's solicitors, the accusation is exclusively based upon a lie made on behalf of Forti, during the first hours of his arrest, when he denied knowing Pike jr. and was further led to believe that the father was also dead. A few hours after, the first version was changed, informing the authorities that Forti himself had actually gone to the airport to meet Pike jr. for the first time and collect him from the airport, confirming also that he had paid the airfare and that he would meet the father there a few days later.
The board of inquiry also believe obvious that Forti could not have physically carried out the murder himself, but could have been the instigator. It is difficult to understand the motivation, as the deal with the father had concluded and the law in Anglo-Saxon countries is different to that in Italy where possessions are automatically passed onto the next of kin, as everyone is free to leave their possessions to whoever they desire.
In this specific case, there is no reason to believe that if the sale had not gone ahead, Pike jr. would have reaped any advantage, as relations between father and son had not been good for a while, and the son led an independent life away from his father with no particular ties.
The only element that sustains the accusation, and therefore determines Forti's condemnation to life imprisonment, is the lie voiced by Forti in the first hours of his arrest, that denying knowing Pike jr, because police of Miami say also lies to him, when saw to him that also Pike senior was not to be found. This is the voice of Enrico Forti during a little documentary by italian tv across 2004. [Chico Forti http://www.chicoforti.com] say that him denying knowing Pike jr, because after come back to Miami after listen the notice of the death of Pike jr, when the police saw to him the fake notice that also Pike senior was not to be found, him have take fear and saw a lie.
Enrico Forti don't had problems with justice before this fact. PHOTO Enrico Forti 1
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