The discovery of a man who faked his suicide ten years ago, located in Greece by a program on Italian public television (RAI), has caused surprise in Italy, where the divorce proceedings initiated by his ex-wife were the key to finding him.

“He is not a man, nor a father. “He has been a grandfather and he doesn't even know it,” said his ex-wife on the RAI program Quien has seen it, after the images were broadcast in which the individual asked the television team that had found him to leave and to They said they had not seen him.

Adamo Guerra, a 55-year-old household goods representative, had left several farewell letters in 2013 – one for his parents, another for a co-worker and another for his ex-wife – in which he announced his suicide.. He asked his parents to help his ex-wife and his two daughters, who were 12 and 16 at the time: “Now is the time to finish. “I will try to do this last step well to save you the pain of a funeral,” he wrote.

According to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, the three letters stated: “I never wanted to hurt you, but unfortunately the time has come to end this.”. Guerra, from Romagna, went on to say that “he had contracted a debt with dangerous people, but things went badly for him.”

And although his body was not found, his family assumed he was dead: his car appeared in the port of Ancona (center) and after a police investigation without results they assumed that he drowned in the sea and that is why his remains were never found. recuperate.

The reality was very different, since Guerra had taken a boat to the Greek town of Patras, where he had resided since his disappearance and where he was located after his ex-wife began divorce proceedings.

“The lawyer called me and told me that my husband was not a missing person,” said the woman, explaining that a certain Adamo Guerra had requested in 2022 to be registered as an Italian citizen residing in Greece and that at first she thought that It was a case of identity theft.

The woman turned to a RAI program that searches for missing people to understand what had happened and found reality, after Guerra confirmed that it was him to the RAI team and then asked them to act as if they had not heard. found.

“He is not a man, not a father, there are no words to describe this,” the ex-wife said, perplexed when she saw his reaction.