Salami mogul killed after helicopter crashes into grounds of medieval castle

One of Italy’s apical salami moguls has died aft a chopper crashed into his family’s castle grounds, sidesplitting three.

Cured meats heir Lorenzo Rovagnati, 41, visited the medieval estate, successful Castelguelfo di Noceto, by chopper from Milan astir each Wednesday.

But this time, his Agusta Westland AW109 crashed soon earlier 7pm arsenic a dense fog sat hung implicit Parma, a state that lends its sanction to Parma ham. Both pilots besides died successful the crash.

Rovagnati had 2 children with Federica Sironi, who is large with a third.

‘I can’t judge it’, said Luciano Casiraghi, the politician of Biassono, wherever Mr Rovagnati lived connected the outskirts of Milan.

‘I learned with daze and heavy sadness the quality of the untimely demise of our chap national Lorenzo Rovagnati owed to a tragic mishap successful Castelguelfo.

‘Lorenzo was a good, honorable and hardworking young man, loved and valued by each who knew him successful the institution and beyond.

His nonaccomplishment is hard for each of america to accept; a young antheral who inactive had a large aboriginal up of him, arsenic a begetter and arsenic an entrepreneur, but unluckily beingness has reserved thing unspeakable for our chap national Lorenzo.’

Until his decease yesterday, Mr Rovagnati was the CEO of the household business, 1 of the country’s large salami and prosciutto manufacturers.

Cheese and food were its concern erstwhile it was founded by Angelo Ferruccio Rovagnati and his son, Paolo, aft World War II.

With a displacement to processed meats successful the 1960s, it became champion known arsenic the shaper of the Gran Biscotto cooked prosciutto.

Under the precocious Lorenzo Rovagnati’s leadership, the institution opened its archetypal overseas accumulation works successful Vineland, New Jersey, successful the USA.

Known arsenic the ‘king of hams’, the Rovagnati institution turns implicit revenues of £250million a year, and employs much than 1,000 people.

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