Villa Bompiani Padua, 05.00 amThe Police and the Carabinieri had gathered en masse at Villa Bompiani; less than ten minutes had passed since the alarm had sounded. Perhaps due to the notoriety of the family or their high-ranking friendships, there were about a hundred men and women in the villa, including policemen and carabinieri, to which was added the special anti-terrorism team. In practice, there was half the Padua Police Headquarters and a large part of the Carabinieri Command.
The Bompianis were shocked, the sophisticated alarm system had been deactivated with unusual abilities for simple thieves interested only in silverware. The first suspicion of the investigators was the attempted kidnapping of one of the members of the family, perhaps the adopted son Belial. Everyone knew the
