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April 14, 2020 At the moment it is only a fact-finding investigation, a so-called "related documents" file, aimed at examining whether there are extremes of crime, the one opened by the Messina Prosecutor's Office on the funeral of Rosario Sparacio, brother of the boss, then repented, Gino .The funeral, which took place last Saturday, was attended by 39 people. The small crowd accompanied the body from the house to the cemetery. The prosecutor, led by Maurizio de Lucia, is acquiring the elements to ascertain whether there have been violations of the dpcm prohibiting the gatherings, issued to contain the contagion from Covid, and whether among the participants there were members of Cosa Nostra in freedom, but required to respect restrictions on freedom of movement. Law enforcement officers are proceeding to identify the citizens present.
Rosario Sparacio, brother of the Giostra boss Luigi, called Gino, then passed among the ranks of the collaborators of justice, had not had relations with the former mafia for years. In recent days, several politicians have criticized harshly the mayor of Messina, Catena De Luca, for not having prevented the procession. The first citizen replied denying that it was a procession and claiming that the small crowd limited themselves to escorting the coffin for 200 meters, the distance that separates Sparacio's house from the cemetery.
The mayor's reply
"I don't want to be thanked by the Sparacio family for an event that I learned from the press and that today I had the opportunity to investigate with the Messina commissioner's office of the cabinet with details that I cannot reveal". To say the mayor of Messina Cateno De Luca, regarding the thanks of the Sparacio family to the first citizen for explaining that a few days ago after the death of Rosario Sparacio "there was no funeral, currently prohibited, but a mere transport of the body for a few hundred meters, to which some relatives of the deceased joined in an extemporaneous way ". "I have always been - continues De Luca - away from mafia circles and I have always fought every form of mafia. If I had been aware of this story I would have acted as promptly as I usually do. The mafia has always sucked me like any form of abuse I do not intend to feed the hypocritical professionals of the fake anti-mafia. The mafia is fought with good and sound administration and not with certain noble conferences or press releases useful to wash the conscience of never having done anything concrete to defeat the underworld. of Messina does not deserve to suffer these humiliations, above all after having shown to have been compact in the respect of the rules ".
The controversy
"After having for days made names and surnames of simple citizens who according to him were violating the quarantine, the mayor of Messina, Cateno De Luca, did not realize that the only funeral procession in Italy was probably celebrated in his city in this month: that of 'Uncle Sarinu', brother of the former mafia boss Sparacio ". So Fausto Raciti, member of the Democratic Party. "We are faced with a serious 'inattention' by an institution that has proved strong with the weak and weak with the strong. For this - continues Raciti - I will present today a question to the government that sheds light on what happened It is an act due to all those citizens of Messina who are respecting the rules correctly, and do not deserve injustice or mockery, "he concludes.