Mannino: “Always convinced of Lombardo’s innocence, I wish him a good night’s sleep”

“Personally, I feel the satisfaction that a friend can feel. A friend, however, always convinced of his innocence”. Thus at the AdnKronos the former DC minister Calogero Mannino comments on the acquittal on appeal of the former President of the Sicily Region Raffaele Lombardo. “It is a recognition that justice makes him – he adds -, of course, a very tiring recognition for him. An experience that I have made even more intensely and more painfully. In truth, in calling him to please myself, I told him that I did not know if congratulate me, because when these things happened to me it almost bothered me that they were congratulated for something very obvious like acquittal was “. As for the possibility that Raffaele Lombardo’s judicial odyssey may not yet have come to an end, Mannino comments: “I slept soundly, then I got a piece of paper that took another ten years. I hope he doesn’t happen to him. the same thing”. Then, in conclusion, Mannino stresses that a certain anti-mafia judiciary “continues in its profession, they will not give up. The Palamara case, of extreme gravity, has had consequences, some members of the CSM have resigned, but the CSM has been reinstated in its plenum and continues in its exercise. The problems raised by the unveiling Palamara have not been addressed. What does it show? That the problem of justice has become irresolvable, no one can try, not even the President of the Republic has tried. “