Gioacchino Genchi: “There was a design to get me out”

“There was a plan to get me out, I’ve always been convinced. I was suspended from police service after being heard by the prosecutors about the via D’Amelio massacre, following the revelations of the repentant Gaspare Spatuzza”. Speaking, in an interview with Adnkronos, is Gioacchino Genchi, former assistant commissioner and former consultant to numerous judicial authorities, after the decision of the Court of Cassation which ‘denied’ the Privacy Guarantor on Gioacchino Genchi’s archive. That archive was regular. The Cassation thus confirmed the ‘no’ decided by the Court of Palermo, in July 2019, to the fine of over 192 thousand euros requested by the Privacy Guarantor against Gioacchino Genchi, who, according to the Authority, would have “illegally” set up a database in which he allegedly “merged the findings acquired in the course of 351 expert assignments entrusted to him in various parts of the country by the competent judicial authority”. “In any case”, even in the face of regulatory changes that have occurred over time in terms of the protection of sensitive data, “the processing of data that takes place for legal purposes is free from formal obligations and is therefore not punishable” , says the Supreme Court. “A story based on the hoax of the archive with which they tried to kill me, between Palermo and Catanzaro, ends with the Why Not investigation, where I was engaged in the most important investigations that were there at that time”, says Gioacchino Genchi . And he remembers some of the burning investigations: from the reopening of the investigations into the Capaci and via D’Amelio massacres, which are still being investigated today, but also on the misdirection of the investigations on via D’Amelio. “They took the Catanzaro affair as a pretext, which, moreover, was the least important of all and they killed me”, says Genchi. ‘I was suspended for a post on Facebook and then dismissed but I returned to the police’ “The suspension from service in Police arrives in 2009, after I am heard by the prosecutors Sergio Lari and Nico Gozzo following the statements of the new collaborator Gaspare Spatuzza – says Genchi – I was suspended for a post on Facebook. And then I was dismissed for my intervention at a conference “. But after some time, Gioacchino Genchi, who in the meantime had started to act as lawyers, appealed and the TAR canceled the suspension decision and then also the Administrative Justice Council and Genchi was readmitted, returned to service but retired in 57 years old. “I went back to being a lawyer – he says today – and I like it”. (by Elvira Terranova)