00:07After two and a half years I still can't make a hypothesis on what it could be.
00:14happened, because it is inexplicable.
00:20These images were filmed two weeks after the disappearance of Michele Peragallo, he was the
00:26February 2, 2013. During those days they had looked for him everywhere, in the thickets, in the ravines,
00:34in abandoned houses, in coves, and on rocks. But no trace of him.
00:43Two and a half years have passed and of Michele Peragallo only his boat and his house remain. We find them
00:50just as they were left. Sometimes objects speak more than a thousand words. A man
01:01A 55-year-old man, never married, who lived alone. Who was Michele really? Or rather, what was the perception?
01:08what did you think of him?
01:09He's a very, very introverted person, very discreet. It's definitely difficult to get into him,
01:18but you could tell he was a very good person. Michele was a guy, in his own way, very...
01:26He was taciturn. He wasn't one to open up about his problems. He always kept things under control.
01:36Too many questions, too many demands for attention in speaking irritated him. This was one thing.
01:44who could sometimes even be unpleasant. Even after he retired, he
01:55He had made trips to India, he had made trips to other places, he had got a boat, he loved
01:59Fishing. He had created a series of pastimes, diversions that filled his days.
02:05He played sports, he had many friends, but many friends, so in the evening they met up.
02:11So he wasn't a loner anymore than a slut.
02:16His connotation was that of often being alone, possibly inside
02:22of a natural context.
02:24He was not a person who could have any bad friendships, etc., because he really was
02:30a good character, very accommodating.
02:34He never let anyone know if he had any problems or…
02:41From the words of his friends and acquaintances, it seems as if we are dealing with two different people.
02:46One is sporty, outgoing, and full of friends; the other is solitary and introverted.
02:51A bit like the land he loved so much, Stintino, where the picture-postcard sea coexists with the cliffs
02:57wild.
03:00To understand, to try to find a solution, we have to start over, go back to the moment
03:07of the disappearance.
03:08It was February 2, 2013, a Saturday like any other.
03:13I knocked and no one answered.
03:17I said, but how strange, Rita didn't come knocking very soon.
03:21It's not that he felt bad.
03:24I turned around, pushed the door, and saw that the door was open.
03:26Then I went around the rooms and saw that all the rooms were empty.
03:30On the table there was a mess from someone who had mentioned the day before, you know, dishes
03:35dirty, these things.
03:37And there I took it and I called and I made the discovery of the telephone.
03:42And Michele had left everything there, cigarettes, even cigarettes.
03:46The cigarettes, the watch, the telephone.
03:51It remains a mystery, indeed yes, because the investigations were carried out by colleagues
03:58of the Carabinieri.
04:00We also participated in large numbers in the search operations.
04:06I remember that a group of State Police pilots had made themselves available
04:12from Basanta.
04:13You organized the searches like wildfire.
04:15Like wildfire, like wildfire, yes.
04:17The first perception is that he heard it badly, maybe because he was going for a run.
04:22morning.
04:23There are many hypotheses to take into consideration.
04:26The first, the most obvious, is that it was a tragedy.
04:31It is true that we are surrounded by the sea, something could have happened, something could have happened
04:38even at sea, so the sea often does not return.
04:42The next day the firefighters, the divers, the police and Massimo arrived
04:48Scarpatti with 15 friends etc. and things, divers, we did the whole coast, on one side
04:53and on the other.
04:54Or we also have very inaccessible areas of our territory, sometimes even inaccessible.
05:00and there could be some hypotheses in this direction too.
05:07The Alpine rescuers arrived, with their molecular dogs and their sniffer dogs.
05:12from the track.
05:13Four times the territory was not marked.
05:16Finally the manager, Alessandro, told me, look, your brother here on the ground
05:20there is no safe.
05:23As you can see, every explanation oscillates between the possible and the improbable and is always
05:29proof of denial.
05:30He's got the flu, fever, other things, maybe he went crazy in the morning.
05:34It's absurd.
05:35One more thing.
05:36If he had gone he would have taken the dogs with him.
05:38As he always did.
05:40It's the cell phone.
05:42He was a party, he never left it.
05:46Then the economic trail opened up, that of the financial crisis.
05:52Michele retired in 2011, perhaps his income was too low.
05:57When Michele took the severance pay, for example, it was me and Mario Balsano who
06:02we said, Michele, this liquidation, you, knowing the element, because Michele
06:07He's someone who always spent money, he wasn't someone who was an ant, he was a cicada.
06:13Take at least 10,000 euros, pretend you don't have them, and put them aside.
06:17After Michele disappeared, it is another thing that it was discovered that he had this money
06:21within a year he had wiped them out.
06:24As we know, he had financial problems, with some financial companies that perhaps with the south of
06:32he had difficulty paying for the pension.
06:38Those 1,000 euros that you are missing, Michele and what, is for a financial company that did
06:43to be able to subsidize his brother in a period of crisis, therefore a large part of the severance pay
06:48he used it to plug my ass.
06:51He had a very free relationship with money, in the sense that when he had it he spent it and didn't
06:55he had the idea of ​​putting it aside because it wasn't in his personality, carpe diem a little,
07:00I was initially appointed as a lawyer, I was able to see the documents,
07:05Michele's papers in a private sense and I have not detected any fact that could lead
07:11to say he had a huge debt, he left or killed himself because he was desperate, no.
07:19A tragedy, suicide, financial problems, in the long run everything is true and the opposite.
07:25of everything.
07:26The fourth hypothesis disproves the previous ones and delves into Michele's dark past.
07:32Did he have a double life?
07:33What if he said it was something related to his service?
07:37But his brother was retired, that's impossible.
07:41And then he spent the last few years as a watchman.
07:44In the last few years here, let's say, he was mostly employed in guard duty,
07:50for which he was a cot operator or guard.
07:54The brother didn't act as a watchman.
07:56For ten years he acted as an escort for the Honorable Mancino.
08:00A steward or a trusted man with a thousand secrets?
08:03Both theories seem plausible, but neither is certain.
08:07He retired when he was 55, he wasn't that old,
08:10He's also physically fit, but we all have a few aches and pains.
08:15when we start to pass a certain age.
08:19There's something wrong with this.
08:22The year my brother was retired, I had serious doubts.
08:26Why did they retire you?
08:28He tells me, let's say Giacomo, we have reached a solution,
08:31and this is what I'm telling you now I've never told anyone,
08:34I reached a compromise with my bosses.
08:36I will no longer serve in uniform,
08:41I may be retired, but I will always be available.
08:44I'll tell you later.
08:46Rumors are swirling, an inconvenient witness, a secret service, a SISDE agent.
08:52I still hope that SISDE works,
08:53that if someone is a SISDE agent nobody knows anything.
08:57Maybe we were friends with 007 and didn't know.
09:02Another hypothesis, simple but plausible, is the sentimental trail.
09:07Michele, by all accounts, was a handsome man.
09:10It was my first love, I was 15 when I had,
09:15I fell in love with this beautiful boy who was extraordinarily handsome.
09:20Michele is a handsome boy, a handsome man, he has dated many women over time,
09:24But I'm telling you, he was a very private guy,
09:27It's not like he came to tell you, ah I was with that one, I was with that other one,
09:32He wasn't married, he wasn't family, so I'm a brother here in Stentino.
09:36He may have also met, I don't know, some woman somewhere else, I don't know.
09:43And finally, there remains the real possibility of voluntary removal.
09:47If I didn't grant that he had also decided to be a ghost,
09:55to invalidate himself, to disappear, he had no reasons, he had no ties that,
09:59it was enough to say, oh guys, hello too, gentlemen, it was nice, goodbye, thank you.
10:06And here a surprising testimony changes the point of view with an actual element,
10:12It's not a hypothesis, it's a little twist.
10:15I was at the post office, the Thursday before he disappeared passed
10:20and he asked me if it was appropriate to give the IBAN to someone who had contacted him
10:26for the sale of his motorcycle.
10:28He told me they were African and I advised him not to give it to him.
10:33because we usually know that there are scams behind these gentlemen.
10:40Shortly before his disappearance, Michele put his motorbike and boat up for sale,
10:44that is, his most prized possessions and his bank account is almost at zero.
10:48He obviously needs money, he wants to leave, he's organizing his escape.
10:53It comes out a week before, I don't know if it's about the good guys or other things,
10:56he says reluctantly that I am selling the motorbike due to lack of use, without even putting it in
11:01as much as I requested, I have the characteristics, that's enough.
11:04He liked it so much, I even asked him if he could lend it to me for a ride,
11:08he had told me no.
11:11In fact, he surprised me, I said to him, are you tired already?
11:13And he told me no, I need to sell it.
11:18After four days she disappeared.
11:21He even fills the bowls with dog food.
11:24So Michael used to leave the bowl full for the dogs, like that day,
11:32which is something that has a little bit...
11:34So on that day the bowl was full.
11:37It was full.
11:37So he left her for the dogs to eat.
11:40In our opinion, yes.
11:45We don't know why, whether by choice or necessity he wants to leave.
11:50He's a cop, he knows how to cover his tracks.
11:53If he made this choice as I believe, as I hope, he knew, he was capable and he was up to it.
11:59to do it perfectly.
12:04As if to confirm this, here in the village, no one speaks of Michele in the past tense.
12:09Michele is alive, unless proven otherwise.
12:13Anyway, I don't think about death, I think about him being gone.
12:19A person like him, hypersensitive, perhaps prefers to be in a lighter place
12:26compared to our society, which perhaps was a little too narrow for him.
12:29I want to hope that at this moment he is listening to me, maybe saying that
12:32you're a pain in the ass, ...
12:35But I'll never get rid of this.
12:37No, Michele, never let go of it, because you are in my heart.
12:39It's a piece of me.
12:41Michele is a piece of me.
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