Some Italians have their say...

There are 3 independent claims from Italians that validate James Paul McCartney was replaced back in the latter half of 1966. 
I will begin this post with the story from an Italian photographer.

Above photo taken by Emilio Lari 

In a video interview recorded in 2014, an Italian photographer named Emilio Lari claimed that in 1966 Paul McCartney was replaced by, as he put it, a "sosia"- or, lookalike, after having died in a car accident. Lari, who had worked with McCartney on the movie sets of Hard day's night and Help, stated that the person who today is known as Sir Paul McCartney is not the same Paul McCartney who he had spoken with at length and photographed in those 1964 and 65 Beatles movies. 

He also has claimed in another video that his home had been broken into and that only photos he had taken of Paul during those shoots were stolen, nothing else. Luckily he was still in possession of the negatives. In addition to that, he says Sir Paul McCartney has made offers to buy up all the photos Lari had taken of Paul back in 64 and 65, but he has never sold any of those pictures to him.

  Lari's video interview

                           

Emilio & Paul on the set of Help

       Emilio Lari in 2014

Below link: Emilio Lari's pictures of the Beatles
https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/photographers/JZX6zN/Emilio-Lari

Another Italian connection that gives more credence to the claim of McCartney being replaced is the history of a certain Aston Martin which he once owned. 
During in-depth research into the subject for his 2015 book, The Beatles Conspiracy:John, Paul, George, Ringo & Bill! author David Malocco uncovered that McCartney actually owned two Aston Martins at that same time. One was the well photographed 1966 green DB6 model, of which he took delivery in March of the same year, and the other was a 1964 DB5 Sierra blue model,(pictured below) of which the existence, according to Mr.Malocco, was not so easy to uncover. Apparently, this car was delivered to McCartney in September, 1964, not long after the Beatles had returned from their world tour of that year. It's what was recorded in the service log of that car which has led to a couple of noteworthy bits of information coming to light.

The car's ownership has changed hands several times over the decades for ever increasing amounts of money and has naturally been restored extensively several times since originally belonging to McCartney. One such restoration was completed in 2011 when the car was owned by an Italian named Walter Baroni, whose Milan company actually did the restoration on Macca's 64 Aston Martin.

McCartney's 1964 DB5 Aston Martin undergoing restoration at Baroni's Milan workshop in 2011

In his book, David Malocco says that Baroni was initially somewhat reluctant to talk about the history of the vehicle but did say that he was aware of the "McCartney death rumour". He also stated that due to information contained within the vehicle's service log, he was 100% certain that the car had been involved in a serious crash in 1966, though not to the extent of it having to be written off.
He said that the car had received a significant blow, and that the collision, which caused a foot wide by a foot deep indentation at the front of the vehicle, was most likely with a pole or something of a similar size. In addition, the windscreen was shattered. 
There was one more bit of information which Signor Baroni had to impart. He added that when he owned the car a production crew from the History Channel had visited his restoration workshop to film the car and the documentation which comes with it. Apparently one of the crew mentioned to him that the documentary they were making was planned to be broadcast only after the death of Sir Paul McCartney, and that it would contain... 
"a very outstanding revelation!"

Walter Baroni with McCartney's partially restored Aston Martin 


By combining those last two bits of information together, I can think of only one conclusion which most people would come to of what that revelation would most likely be...that being...it was in that 1966 accident with his Aston Martin DB5 (of which no official police report has ever been uncovered) that the biological Paul McCartney met his end. The very fact that no report of an accident with McCartney's 1964 DB5 Aston Martin has ever surfaced, yet the information in the car's service log runs contrary to that, indicates to me some kind of cover up has been undertaken.

To view work done on McCartney's Aston Martin at Baroni's restoration workshop click on the below link and then the video 2nd from bottom left.
http://www.baronilegend.com/video.html

Below: the car as it looks today 
after being resprayed silver

source material on Aston Martin/Baroni 
link taken from 

The Forensic evidence

The last information, which has also come out of Italy, is the most compelling of the 3 in this post, as the people involved with disseminating it have relied solely on computer enhanced forensic techniques and their expertise to back up their various claims.

(To be continued...)