Sensational turning point in Mexico on the case of the murder of the Italian businessman Raphael Alessandro Tunesi , assassinated in Palenque, in the state of Chiapas, on 1 July last.

Elisabeth Gomes, Mexican wife of the hotelier, was arrested as the instigator of the murder . The two alleged assassins are also in handcuffs with her.

The arrest of the three was announced by the Chiapas State Attorney General, who in a statement reported that the police carried out on Thursday "an arrest warrant issued by the judge against two men and a woman as probable perpetrators of the murder "Of Tunesi.

Tunesi, a hotel entrepreneur and an important scholar of Mayan culture, died in a full-blown ambush on a deserted road , shot to death by a barrage of bullets fired by hitmen on motorcycles. On board his BMW he was heading towards the “La Escriba” school, from where two of his three daughters, all born to the woman now accused of having commissioned his murder, were about to leave.

Born in Munich and raised in Milan, Tunesi moved to Mexico due to his interest in pre-Columbian culture. There he met his wife 20 years ago, who encouraged him to revolutionize his project of building a house, transforming it into a five-star hotel now considered the most beautiful and luxurious in Palenque . He was highly esteemed by the Italian-Mexican community and had participated in various initiatives organized by the Italian embassy in Mexico City.

(Unioneonline / L)