Mafia, ‘Cap.Ultimo’: “At the moment of the capture Riina was afraid and said ‘who sends you'”

The capture of Totò Riina, on January 15, 1993, was “a battle won by practicing the techniques of General Dalla Chiesa, together with the carabinieri who were next to me. We did our duty, we captured Riina but it could have been someone else and it didn’t change. nothing, what matters is the technique, the way in which the result is achieved “. It is Sergio De Caprio, the ‘Last Captain’ who put the handcuffs on the wrists of the superlatant of Cosa Nostra, who tells the journalist Ercole Fragasso the stages of the capture of the head of the Mafia, in an interview for the blog ercolefragasso.it. At the moment of arrest, says ‘Ultimo’, Riina “was afraid, she was afraid of dying and she said who you are, who is sending you, I don’t breathe, I don’t breathe, in a cowardly way. This fragility of hers made a little sense to me” . “‘Sense’ that – I imagine – does not mean punishment,” says the interviewer. “No, no, out of contempt. But we must respect the prisoners because when someone has lost he is a loser and therefore he is a prisoner who must be respected as such. The soldiers respect the enemy he has lost because they respect what he does not respect, the dignity of people. This is the difference between us and them “, observes ‘Ultimo’. De Caprio, who with the association “the Volunteers of Captain Ultimo” manages a family home in Rome for assistance to the most needy people, says of himself: “I am still that fifteen-year-old boy who left what he had to give himself to others without wanting anything in return. I did it, I am glad I did it, I am happy to have met other people who thought like me and who gave themselves without expecting anything in return and I am happy to have met General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa and having ‘fought’ in the name of his culture, his technique and having made him live in the ‘battle’ – once again – winning over criminals “.