Gaspare Spatuzza, the Cosa Nostra hitman who dissolved a child in acid, is free after spending 26 years in prison

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Gaspare Spatuzza , the material author of the

attacks

of 1992 and 1993, murderer of a child whom he dissolved in acid and who, after being sentenced to several life sentences, collaborated with justice by revealing secrets of the Sicilian mafia, was left this Friday released after 26 years in prison.

Spatuzza, 58, will be able to enjoy total freedom, without the limitations of the house arrest to which he has been subjected since 2014 for the benefits of his judicial collaboration, although he must comply with some rules, such as not having relationships with people with criminal records and not going out from his town of residence without authorization, as revealed exclusively today by the newspaper 'Corriere della Sera'.

Thus concludes his life sentences for the bombs that exploded in

in the summer of 1993 and which caused ten deaths and more than fifty injuries.

Also for the murder of Father

, assassinated on September 15, 1993, and the 12-year sentence for the kidnapping of a 12-year-old boy, son of the repentant

, who was held for more than two years and later murdered. and dissolved in acid by his jailers, in one of the cruelest pages of Cosa Nostra.

Known as 'u tignusu' (the bald one) he inherited the leadership of the

of Palermo on the recommendation of the leaders.

of Cosa Nostra, including the then "boss of bosses",

, recently arrested after 30 years on the run.

Arrested in July 1997, Spatuzza spent eleven years in isolation, until in 2008 when he decided to speak to the magistrates and confessed to having been one of the perpetrators of the attacks for which he had already been convicted, but also to having participated in those that ended the life with anti-mafia judges

and

, his wife and five bodyguards in 1992.

As a collaborator of the Justice, he also pointed to Messina Denaro as the organizer of the attacks against the judges.

Some of his statements in the more than 15 trials in which he has testified were highly controversial, such as when he accused that

and his right-hand man

had maintained agreements with the Graviano brothers, heads of one of the most powerful families in the Sicilian mafia, at the time of the birth of Forza Italia.

According to his defender, Spatuzza, who will turn 59 in a month, in addition to his "repentance" has experienced a religious conversion that has led him to carry out "acts of reparation and social solidarity, such as asking for forgiveness from the victims, work volunteer, the invitation to collaborate addressed to all gangsters".

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