Investigation into the Marco Pantani case
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Was it murder after all?
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Marco Pantani in the yellow jersey at the 1998 Tour de France.
(Photo: Drawer Singer/Imago)
The Rimini public prosecutor’s office is investigating leads from a drug dealer who brought the deadly cocaine into the room of racing cyclist Marco Pantani in 2004. The drama about the “Pirata” is entering a new, probably final, round.
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Oliver Meiler, Rome
Almost 18 years after the death of Marco Pantani there is another attempt to shed more light on the drama from room 5D of the residence “Le Rose” in Rimini, possibly with new insights. It is probably also the last attempt, the truth behind the perhaps not at all mysterious death of the “most tragic hero in the history of Italian sport”, like that Corriere della Sera calls the racing cyclist to interpret that the family can live with it.
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