The case over the deaths of Amedeo Matacena, former Forza Italia parliamentarian, and his mother Raffaella De Carolis, has been reopened by the Reggio Calabria Public Prosecutor's Office, which has placed his last wife, Maria Pia Tropepi, 43, on the register of suspects. The judiciary, in fact, ordered the exhumation and autopsy of the bodies of Matacena and his mother, who both died in Dubai on September 16, 2022, and June 18 of the same year, respectively. Matacena had long since relocated in order to escape his conviction for external complicity in a mafia association linked to the "Olimpia" trial. Matacena officially died of a myocardial infarction. A version that does not convince the Reggio Calabria prosecutor's office, which has opened an investigation file to ascertain the cause of death. Operations to exhume the bodies and subsequent autopsies will begin on October 1. Maria Pia Tropepi, originally from Lamezia Terme, still lives between Dubai and Italy. In the weeks following her husband's death, she had opposed the repatriation of Matacena's body, arguing that the former parliamentarian had expressed a desire to be cremated. This did not happen at the wishes of her children, who buried their father in the Formia cemetery.