Giancarlo Caselli
Seven years in Palermo, to fight the Mafia. Living a life reinforced. Leaving behind his wife, children and grandchildren. So Giancarlo Caselli has picked up the baton left bloody by Falcone and Borsellino. Seven years of success and fears recounted in a book interview, "The legacy uncomfortable" (Feltrinelli Editore). Two hundred and twenty pages of questions asked by Maurizio De Luca and the answers given by Giancarlo Caselli and Antonio Ingroia who was his deputy and who still works in Palermo. Why
"legacy uncomfortable"?
was 1992, our country was on its knees, appalled by the massacres of Capaci and Via D'Amelio, as if his knees were waiting for the shot in the neck. The mob seemed. With two massacres of the ferocity and military power, after two months of each other, work in Palermo was certainly pick up an uncomfortable legacy. Even more awkward because it meant trying to pick up and continue the work of Falcone and Borsellino, two judges unattainable. The comparison was inevitable that sooner or later they would be placed with persons of extraordinary ability, competence and intelligence.
Why did you write this book?
It all seemed lost. Then, fortunately, it triggered a virtuous cycle, institutions united against the Mafia, right, left, no difference, the public strongly mobilized, the streets of Palermo full of young people to remember Falcone and Borsellino, new laws aimed at specific phenomenon The law on repentant the prison on the treatment of the mafia, the 41a, that worked. Read requested by Falcone and Borsellino were alive and when they arrived only after their death ...
After their death or because of their death?
The Act was initiated by Falcone repented when he was at the Ministry of Justice, but some argue that the conversion into law a decree immediately after the Capaci massacre would have encountered difficulties. But all the difficulties were swept away from the carnage in via D'Amelio. All the most important laws on the Mafia are "a" always come after the fact that some forces to step in and fill a gap that until now had been tolerated with sufficient indifference.
We return to the virtuous circle.
are very important. Apprehend fugitives as never before: Riina, Bagarella, Brusca, Gravano. Almost 24 000 on remand, in 3238 for the Mafia, 10 000 billion in assets seized only in Palermo, an impressive figure even when compared to the wealth of the Mafia is an understatement. And then, in the single year 2000, 116 life sentences for acts of the mafia, the processes relating to the defendants within the organization, mafia doc, with the cap.
many results, a few awards. This is the meaning of the book?
Nobody pretends to be incensed or be wrapped in the flag. We have a sense of limits. But respect the results obtained and for the role played these things are legitimate claim. Instead the opposite has happened: we were insulted. I quote: murderers, terrorists, thugs, sadists, torturers, fools, liars, criminals, homunculi, and the like. E 'uncivil in a modern country who risks his skin to be attacked in this manner illiberal, vulgar, barbaric. There have been incredible as that paid on falsehoods that we wanted to hear Badalamenti for fear that he would have dismantled the theorem Buscetta. Apart from that feel Badalamenti is useless because it barely acknowledges that he was born, the accusation is false. The prosecutor has heard many times and written records are available to all. And many times we tried to hear and he has always pulled back. And more: the denial. Denying the results claiming that these were years of failure, defeat, loss of money, backward in terms of law and guarantees. These things have said the same people who had insulted and attacked Falcone at the time. Perhaps it is worth remembering the shameful involvement of Lino Jannuzzi against Falcone and De Gennaro when he has described as "a couple whose strategy has landed at the complete failure ... the main culprits of the debacle of the state in front of the mafia." For the same reasons and with the same words with which he had insulted Falcone, who he now is a shining example (and this time he's right), argues that we have it all wrong. Another violent attack against us did Toto Riina May 25, 1994, public hearing of the murder Scopelliti, when he railed against the conspiracy of the communists Arlacchi, Caselli, Violante talking about repenting and asking handled the abolition of the Law on sorry.
Riina was doing his job, defending himself.
No wonder his attack. I was amazed that no longer has repeated his accusations. Since then it has always been quiet.
What are you suggesting? A
My guess: it was shut up because he started talking about someone else in his place, saying more or less the same thing. Without savings means. Every day. For television, radio, newspapers. You mean
agreements? A link?
for charity. Do not even think about it. I only say that Riina is not stupid and knows just what he should do. He sees the TV and read newspapers. If they talk about other people and say the same things, what good is talking?
injuries always come on the same side?
most serious and systematic attacks came from the newspaper, the Gazette, Panorama, and the televising of Vittorio Sgarbi. A "horse" due a well-defined area. It 's also a fact that the attention thickened each time they were taken legal action that could create trouble for the leader of that area or people close to him.
The "deniers" will recall, however, that all processes with excellent defendants accused of External Relations, in collusion with Cosa Nostra, ended in acquittals.
Buscetta told Falcone: "I'm with you I'm not talking about politics and mafia because Italy is not ready yet and would take a fool." After the massacres, like everyone else, felt compelled to speak of this too. And we suspect because it was required to investigate. But the results have been poor. Zero convictions. We have written this book not only to claim with pride the achievements but also to provide the opportunity to answer this question: why life sentences to 116 mobsters and zero defendants sentenced to excellent? In total respect for the ruling Andreotti make a few observations. First, the conditions for the prosecution were all there, not to act would be illegal, dishonest, cowardly and de-legitimizing because the other surveys did not have any more credibility if the law is not equal for everyone. Second, the sentence is in fact an acquittal for insufficient evidence. Besides, without a comprehensive assessment of all history. Third, the ruling confirms that performs several significant issues and qualifying system adversarial, relationships with Salvo Lima, Sindona, Ciancimino, the entities defined in the ruling as deeply embedded in Cosa Nostra. Talk of the theorem, of perseverance, persecution, political use of the judicial function, is blasphemy, a violence done to the truth of the facts. The sentences need to know. So why
116 to zero?
Three possibilities: i am are good, good, beautiful, fair, capable and efficient when dealing with the mafia coppola and become ugly, incompetent, stupid, cowardly when it comes to defendants excellent. Maybe. Second hypothesis: the evidence is objectively more difficult. A Mafia murder also leaves traces. But external relations are extremely fine, do not keep minutes of meetings, there are lists of collusion, and as external relations are the backbone of the crucial moments of force mafia, are protected by a very special secret. Option three: criteria for evaluation of the test are not always the same. You can choose any of these three hypotheses, or perhaps combined. But the sentence must know before you use it to beatify acquitted the accused and to criminalize the public prosecutor.
had already happened at the time of Falcone and Borsellino.
Exactly. With the maxi trial had shown that the mafia could be defeated. And instead of being supported, were swept away by force of controversy, and the pool was demolished. The controversy leveled against them are the same leveled against us: antimafia professionals, liberal use of repentant political use of justice for a party, pool turned into a center of power. Same accusations, often by the same person. But with a difference, Falcone and Borsellino were blown away, we do not. Difficulties, opportunities lost, but the pool has continued to work. Continuity.
Ingroia wrote: "It 's death the highway where I thought to march."
And the fact that, faced with a job that produced good results, instead of support, perhaps critical, came the attacks, the smear campaigns without systematic saving of resources and men, the false statements. All of this material in silence.
Silence of whom?
While some abused us, the other party does not defend ourselves. We were shocked and embarrassed silence of those who should have been dialectically in opposition to those who accuse us, the resigned indifference of those who would defend us.
the recent elections in Sicily there was a proper coat. 61 to zero to force Italy. It means something?
A Bulgarian majority in a democracy is always a problem. And if that majority Bulgarian records where objectively there are mafia, the problem even more serious.
Don Ciotti reported an investigation of the diocese of Monreale which showed a high percentage of people who have been conditioned, gifts, promises.
I do the magistrate, I have no title and role to go further.
Since the center-right won've noticed a spate of attacks?
I repeat, I am a magistrate, not the politician. In the book there are answers between the lines. But someone said that the book is good because very often we understand that we stop at some point because our institutional role does not allow us to go further. This also applies to our conversation.
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