He fell in love with a young woman for a question, traveled to Africa to meet her and everything ended in the worst way possible

A 67-year-old Italian businessman fell into the trap: he had traveled to Ivory Coast, Africa, to meet an alleged girlfriend he met online. He was held hostage there for three days. and had to be rescued by the local police, in collaboration with Italian agents. Miraculously alive, now he has returned to Italy. The story, which occurred in 2021, has gone viral again in the last few hours.

Claudio Formenton has a marble production company in Fosso, a municipality of 7,000 inhabitants near Venice. But one day the man, grandfather and father of the family, met an alleged man Martorese From the web. Talk goes, talk comes, in November 2021 the man agrees to travel to Abidjan, West Africa, to meet his new love in person.

When you arrive at the airport, At the terminal a taxi driver sent by Olivia is waiting for him with a sign with his name, who tells him that he will take him to the place where he will meet the attractive young man. But the taxi deviates from the expected route and Claudio Formenton disappears. For three days the Italian entrepreneur did not respond to calls and messages from his friends and family, who were increasingly worried about the situation.

Alarmed, they decide to contact the Italian police to report the disappearance of Claudio Formenton in the Ivory Coast. The Carabinieri investigative team mobilizes to solve the enigma of the entrepreneur’s absence, and through the geolocation of his cell phone they manage to trace his discovery.

The investigators, coordinated by the public prosecutor Erminio Amelio, managed to discover that he was in a hotel in the city of Bonoua, after having previously visited a couple of hideouts. Local law enforcement arrived at the hotel room, where he was being guarded by a kidnapper, to free him.

Stefano Marrone, lawyer of the entrepreneur Formenton, asked that his privacy be respected, because he is only looking for rest and does not want to make statements. Even the sister, in the company, asked for respect and silence from the journalists: “We are a family that has always worked and earned everything with effort and sweat”.

Formenton told police he had not been abused and had not paid the ransom.

Now the entrepreneur will have to explain his journey to the Italian authorities, who had to make a considerable effort to bring him back to their country.

Investigators are convinced that behind the alleged Olivia Martens lies a gang that surely attracted other older men with money in their networks.

The anger of an Italian priest

Formenton had earned among his compatriots the reputation of a serious industrialist, with a constant and generous social commitment, which led the parish priest to appoint him extraordinary minister for the distribution of Holy Communion. In short, he was a model entrepreneur for his neighbors: everything was work, family and parish help.

In fact, in your community, Formenton said he was on a humanitarian trip to Ivory Coast to see a missionary friend.Father Mattia Mellis, who works in the Yopougan mission, and we spend a week with him.

But now, having returned to his city, Formenton finds a rarefied climate. The parish priest Claudio Savoldo has decided to revoke the entrepreneur’s role as ‘minister of Communion’, This was reported by the Venetian newspaper ‘Il Gazzettino’. “In light of the revelations that have been made about him, his position in the parish will be definitively revoked,” Savoldo declared.