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Tiziano Granata (14 February 1978 – Piraino , 28 February 2018 ) was an Italian policeman, deputy superintendent
In May 2016, he foiled an attack on the politician Giuseppe Antoci together with his colleagues Daniele Manganaro, Sebastiano Proto and Salvatore Santostefano, thus saving Antoci's life. In June 2016, they were awarded by the Minister of the Interior Angelino Alfano, and then promoted in June 2020 by the Chief of Police Franco Gabrielli and finally decorated in February 2024 with the awarding of the Gold Medal for Civil Valor by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella.
Death and investigations
editThe policeman was found dead on the morning of March 1, 2018 in his house. The death dates back to the previous evening and at first it was said to be a death from natural causes. According to the autopsy results, made public a few days later, he died of cardiac arrest. On the same March 1, 2018, an investigation was opened by the Patti Prosecutor's Office. The following day, his colleague Superintendent Calogero Emilio Todaro also died. Both were investigating clandestine slaughter and agro-mafias. Granata's partner was heard some time later by the Anti-Mafia Commission.
"As for this heart attack that is not a heart attack... but a cardiocirculatory arrest... cardiocirculatory arrest, it's true it can also kill you. But there is a void on the 28th, in which there is no news of Tiziano, of his phone. If you have a cardiocirculatory arrest, it's not like you stay comatose in bed for 24 hours. You can still move, you can pick up the phone, until there is the exitus... I have always thought, then I also told the prosecutor Bonanzinga, that I also suspected poisoning. Because in the period in which I had gone down previously, when we celebrated his birthday which turned forty, Tiziano without eating so had to evacuate quickly, go to the bathroom..."
«His birthday was on February 14th. (…) Then another thing… I raised the alarm that something was wrong from Genoa, calling his brother, because in any case, suddenly we couldn't hear each other anymore, so for me there was something wrong. In the evening (of his death, ed.) Tiziano answered the phone, for the whole day his phone was off or the answering machine answered… so I can't say if it was off or not because it's always the phone lines, but the call came to me several times in the evening, around 8pm, 8.28pm, and I was the one who disconnected the call, because I couldn't hear anyone on the other end… I called Tiziano and my phone showed that they had answered on the other end, the minutes ticked by and there was no voice. So I hung up and repeated this situation four more times, and four times I was answered. I didn't hear anything from the other side... it was me who then disconnected, I mean I was there for 25, 30 seconds too"
(Lorena Ricciardello, Granata's partner)
In 2020, it was revealed through the book I viceré delle agromafie - storia di sbrirri, bovini, malarazza, antimafia e mascariamenti by Luciano Armeli Iapichino that Granata was investigating the fugitive status of the boss Matteo Messina Denaro.
Honours
edit- Gold Medal for Civil Valor
"intervened with extraordinary determination to protect the President of the "Parco dei Nebrodi", for whom he acted as an escort together with other colleagues, reacting very promptly to an ambush set by criminals linked to mafia criminal contexts. Despite being the target of gunshots, he responded promptly by opening fire, managing to save the President of the Park and to dissuade the criminals from their criminal intent, forcing them to flee. A wonderful example of courage, altruism and civic virtues" — February 26, 2024
- Gold medal in memory for high environmental merits
«To the Assistant Chief of the State Police Tiziano Granata, also a Legambiente volunteer, who has distinguished himself for his passion in tackling environmental illegalities, in particular on the front of agri-food fraud and illegal waste trafficking. Among the closest collaborators of the Ecomafia Report, he has contributed to the activities of the Environment and Legality Observatory [ 10 ] » — 3 October 2022