Was Marco Pantani killed after all?

The public prosecutor's office in Rimini opened a corresponding file, as Fiorenzo Alessi, the lawyer for the survivors, told the Ansa news agency on Monday. Previously, two public prosecutor's investigations had come to the conclusion that the 1998 Tour de France and Giro d'Italia winner did not die from outside influence. Pantani was found dead in a hotel room in Rimini on February 14, 2004. According to the autopsy, the then 34-year-old died of a cocaine overdose. The drug dealer's statements But now there are new findings from the athlete's former drug dealer. The dealer testified in a parliamentary hearing at the beginning of 2020: “Marco was killed. I knew him five or six months before his death and he didn't strike me as someone who wanted to kill himself." The man said that Pantani was looking for the truth about the incidents in Madonna di Campiglio: Pantani was excluded from the Giro d'Italia in 1999 because of suspicious doping findings. Pantani always maintained his innocence. However, studies clearly suggested doping abuse. The public prosecutor's office is reopening investigations After the dealer's statements were handed over to the public prosecutor's office, they resumed the murder investigation against unknown persons. According to reports, Pantani's mother also spoke to the prosecutors. “Mamma Tonina wants to know once and for all whether her son died from a mix of antidepressants and cocaine or whether there were other reasons,” said lawyer Alessi. Investigations had already been carried out in 2004 and also in 2016. An investigating judge said at the time that the murder theory was pure fantasy. The highest court then confirmed the archiving of the case.

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Was Marco Pantani killed after all?

A new investigation has been launched into the death of cycling star Marco Pantani, who died in 2004. Murder is being investigated.

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