The brother of the judge Paolo Borsellino: “It was not a capture, but a surrender” by Matteo Messina

The brother of the anti-mafia judge Paolo Borsellino assured EFE today that he fears that the arrest this Monday of Matteo Messina Denaro, the main capo of the Costa Nostra (the Sicilian mafia) after 30 years on the run from Justice, “has not been a capture, but a surrender.”

“More than giving me satisfaction, it fills me with bitterness. I have the suspicion that it was not a capture, but in some way a surrender and that there is a negotiation between the State and the mafia,” he said. salvatore borsellino on the arrest of the person considered the “mastermind” of both the attack in which his brother Paolo died, and that of his colleague and friend Giovanni Falcone.

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Borsellino, who together with Falcone formed the most symbolic pair of anti-mafia magistrates in Italy, was assassinated along with five agents of his escort with a car bomb in Palermo on July 19, 1992 in what is known as the Via d’Amelio massacre. .

Even though Messina Denaro was sentenced to life imprisonment for the attack, the family borsellino is convinced of the complicity of the State in the murder, which occurred, they allege, at a time of collusion with the bloodthirsty Cosa Nostra, although Salvatore assured today that he “suspects” that “the negotiation” continues.

borsellinowho regretted that “30 years had to pass for this to be carried out”, assured that he fears that “the price of the negotiation” that has allowed today Messina Denaro is in prison is “the abolition of the ‘ostativa’ chain”, which does not allow those who serve it penitentiary benefits or a review of the sentence.

In his opinion, the arrest of Messina Denaro “Nothing will change, just as nothing changed with the capture of (his predecessors at the head of Cosa Nostra, Salvatore “Totó”) Riina or (Bernardo) Provenzano. The mafia will unfortunately continue to exist regardless of its bosses.”

Regarding the fact that it took 30 years to capture him, as already happened with Riiina and Provenzano, Bosellino was blunt: “This means that there is complicity in the Italian State with organized crime, a negotiation with criminals that has sacrificed life men like Paolo Borsellino”.

He insisted that “the mafia’s contacts with the State have always existed in Italy and negotiations, unfortunately, have also existed”, regardless of the political formation in the Government, because “the mafia does not have a party, it does not matter who guides it” .

Borsellino explained to EFE that now “the price of this denial is the abolition of the ‘ostativa’ life sentence and the release of the Graviano brothers without collaborating with the judiciary, that is what Toto Riina asked for 30 years ago and today makes”.

The mafia brothers Giuseppe and Filippo Graviano seized power in Cosa Nostra in 1993, after the arrest of Totó Riina for the murder, among others, of Falcone and Borsellino, and they decided to take a stand against the State, as a result of which they perpetrated attacks in Florence, Milan and Rome, in addition to many other homicides.

Arrested on January 27, 1994, the Gravianos have remained in jail ever since.

Asked if the arrest of Messina Denaro closes the circle on the terrible mafia massacres that occurred in the 1990s, Borsellino assured that “this will only happen when it is returned by the party who took it from Paolo’s red agenda, which was stolen from his car still on fire in via Amelio”, where he died.

Salvatore Borsellino has been leading a movement called the “Red Agenda” for years, fighting for the reappearance of the volume where Judge Borsellino wrote everything down, particularly after the murder of Falcone, and which was stolen to “hide the participation of people who did not belong to Mafia”.

Borsellino’s red agenda “would be the black box of these massacres and it is the only thing that could lead to real change,” the judge’s brother added to EFE by phone from Milan (north), where he left his native Palermo at a very young age. in search of the opportunities that “the mafia denied” to the Sicilians.

Messina Denaro was arrested this Monday at a private health clinic in Palermo, the Sicilian capital, where he went to receive medical treatment for cancer.

The Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, traveled to the island of Sicily on Monday to celebrate the arrest of Matteo Messina Denaro, a milestone for which she will propose that January 16 be a holiday in Italy to remember those who “sacrifice their existence” in the fight against the mafia.

Source: Elcomercio

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