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July 14, 2021 The murder of Piersanti Mattarella "could not have been consummated without the approval of the Cosa Nostra", said judge Giovanni Falcone in a hearing, carried out by the Anti-Mafia Commission traveling to Palermo on June 22, 1990, and whose minutes was declassified today. "Mannoia (Francesco Marino repentant, ed) - Falcone explained in that hearing - gave an example that seems absolutely clear to me: when we have a murder and it is not known exactly what happened and why that person was killed, within Cosa Nostra is happening all hell because obviously everyone tries to understand where the blow came from. In the case of the Mattarella murder, everything was quiet ".
"In the Mattarella murder there was a basic agreement of the whole commission on the elimination of this character, in the sense that everyone did not care that he remained alive; however, in the most acute moment of the crisis, which would then have resulted in the 'following year in a very bloody mafia war, everyone was afraid to take the first step, and Stefano Bontade, for the part that was reported to us, preferred to stay at the window in the sense of disinterested in the events of Cosa Nostra in order to then contesting certain events within the organization from the opposition. If Mafia killers had been used for the Mattarella murder, and this was amply confirmed by Buscetta, in two seconds anyone inside Cosa Nostra would have known who had ordered themurder of President Mattarella ".
A mafia murder carried out, however, by non-mafia hitmen: it was the conclusion on the crime of the former president of the Sicilian Region Piersanti Mattarella which judge Falcone had come to. "In August 1980, immediately after the murder of the public prosecutor of Palermo Gaetano Costa, Bruno Contrada went to London, on behalf of the Palermo Police Commissioner of the time, Nicolugia - Falcone continued - Contrada shows the widow Mattarella the photograph of Salvatore Inzerillo indicating him as the perpetrator of the murder. Even then, as after me, the widow Mattarella categorically excluded that Salvatore Inzerillo (who was involved and who has now been indicted for Costa's murder) could be one of the material perpetrators of the murder.On this point, there are absolutely agreed declarations both by Contrada, both by the Honorable Sergio Mattarella, and by the widow of Piersanti Mattarella ".
"The thesis set out in our arrest warrant, which is also in line with the results of an analysis of the documents we provided to the office of the High Commissioner, is the following: in terms of the results emerging from the investigations into black terrorism, the modalities of 'Mattarella murder are certainly compatible; in terms of compatibility between the mafia murder entrusted to characters who should not have had connections with the mafia, an interesting and disturbing reality has emerged ", stated Falcone.
Falcone while being certain of the mafia origin of the Falcone murder believed that the material execution had been delegated to other subjects. "All the characters, the really important ones and without whom a Mafia murder of that caliber could not have taken place in Palermo, in the area of Francesco Madonia (let's not forget this), none of these characters have been recognized, but not in the sense that he was not recognized by the widow Mattarella, but in the sense that he certainly ruled out that these characters could be involved in the execution of the murder ", he adds.
The magistrate, who will be assassinated in Capaci in 1992, therefore believes that the mafia has turned to external killers for the crime and seems to believe the words of Cristiano Fioravanti, who accuses his brother, the black terrorist Valerio Fioravanti, of the assassination. tried and acquitted for the crime after the declarations of the repentant Buscetta who questioned his responsibility. "This is an absolutely incontrovertible fact. Conversely, we have almost certain acknowledgments towards these defendants (Valerio Fioravanti and Gilberto Cavallini both exonerated ed) - he concludes - We are faced with operating procedures that are very similar, in some cases even identical to those of these characters ".Words that deny what was said in January by Fioravanti himself who, in an interview, claimed that Falcone believed in his innocence and that he had had to proceed against him for unspecified pressures. During the hearing at the Antimafia Falcone also tells of an attempt to mislead the investigations into the Mattarella crime by a confidant of the carabinieri, Benedetto Galati.
Regarding the crime of Mattarella: "In fact, I too, like many other colleagues from the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Education Office, heard the late councilor Rocco Chinnici talking about a particular working hypothesis of his (which in any case he had never explained to me), that he understood everything that was happening. " "I must say that it was a far from strange hypothesis - he added - It would have been, that is, 'excellent' murders that are in a certain way apparently staggered over time, but which in reality are part of the events of dynamics also internal to the mafia and which can be restricted in a well-identified period of time ranging from 1978 (murder of Michele Reina) to 3 September 1982 (murder of Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa),even if the crime Dalla Chiesa would be more appropriate, in the light of our investigations, to keep it out of this dynamic, since the important murder, the prominent murder, the murder that is framed in a specific context should be, in my opinion, that of Pio La Torre ".