Chapter 9
The Scognamiglio apartment had no telephone, as was common in social housing at that time, so it wasn’t possible to call the Police Headquarters. To attempt a contact Vittorio had decided to use the small Handie-Talkie radio he had entrusted to Bordin. He asked him for it and tuned in to the standard wavelength of the Police patrol cars. That portable FM radio, made for the open field, had a range of action in the city of a few hundred yards at best, but the proximity of the Scognamiglio residence to the Public Security building and the semi-continuity of Via Medina with Via Monteoliveto meant it was quite likely that the waves reached the head office.
For about five minutes meanwhile, Chief Commissioner Pelluso, who had personally collected information for two hours and given
