Misdirection Borsellino, judges in the council chamber

(From the correspondent Elvira Terranova) – For the accusation it was “a gigantic and” unprecedented “misdirection that” covered up high-level mafia alliances “. While for the defense it is a “castle of lies” that “covered with mud splashes” three policemen who “served the uniform with honor”. Today the judges of the Court of Caltanissetta will decide whether the three accused policemen, Mario Bo, Michele Ribaudo and Fabrizio Matteo, who were part of the ‘Falcone and Borsellino Group’ and which was established after the Via D’Amelio massacre, really induced the false repentant Vincenzo Scarantino to tell the false and to unjustly accuse the innocent, who were then sentenced to life imprisonment for the massacre in which the judges Paolo Borsellino and five escort officers were killed. The judges, chaired by Francesco D’Arrigo, retired to the Council Chamber at 10.45 and announced that they will leave “after 18”, a very indicative time. A process that lasted almost 4 years, and began on November 5, 2018. Just under a hundred hearings. The Prosecutor of Caltanissetta asked for very high penalties. At the end of the indictment, the Chief Prosecutor himself, Salvatore De Luca, with prosecutors Stefano Luciani and Maurizio Bonaccorso, who took over the pool a few months ago, asked for a sentence of 11 years and 10 months for Mario Bo, and nine and a half years for the other two Michele Ribaudo and Fabrizio Mattei. He also requested the perpetual ban from public office for the three defendants. “They have had multiple behaviors and all extremely serious that make the degree of interpenetration in the events tangible – said the prosecutor Luciani, addressing the Court chaired by Francesco D’Arrigo – you have further elements that prove the existence of this element, the conduct that characterizes the ‘illegal “. “It is not an illicit conduct of passage but that from the first moment to the last is repeated and reiterated”, he underlined. “It is the tombstone to the speech we are making.” For the accusation “the protagonism of Dr. Mario Bo in the false declarations of Vincenzo Scarantino and in the illicit management of Scarantino in the protected area is absolutely demonstrated”. “There was a fiduciary relationship between the three defendants and Arnaldo La Barbere, which makes concrete the hypothesis that they had the real representation of the underlying purposes of the conduct put in place”. For the Prosecutor “there are elements that demonstrate convergences that certainly there were in the conception of the massacre of via D’Amelio between the vertices and environments referable to Cosa Nostra and environments external to it “, explains prosecutor Stefano Luciani, during the indictment. And speaking of the missing red diary of Judge Borsellino, the magistrate said: “The disappearance of the red diary, if there has been a disappearance, was not in the interest of the Cosa Nostra but was connected to foreign interests”. Prosecutor De Luca had also explained that “everyone knew that Vincenzo Scarantino alla Guadagna was a delinquent C-series character. Talking about this gigantic, unprecedented, misdirection only for career reasons of Dr. La Barbera (the former manager of the mobile squad of Palermo ed) is the updated and classic remodeled justification of Cosa Nostra “. For the prosecutors “he is absolutely proven in this process, but he was already so in the ‘Borsellino quater’ trial of an, to say the least, anomalous involvement of the SISDE in the very first investigations concerning the via D’Amelio massacre”. “The genesis of this involvement is being reconstructed – claimed the Prosecutor – the statements made by these subjects are interested in sweetening the nature of these relationships, but what emerges from the papers is a data that cannot be sweetened”. The defense of the three accused is quite different. In the course of the defensive speeches they spoke of a “castle of lies” that would have “collapsed miserably”, with “fictional reconstructions” and “slanderous accusations” and “allegations” by the prosecutor. All “without any proof. Zero”. “Lies” that caused “splashes of mud” and “a media pillory” for the three accused, in the trial on the misdirection of the Via D’Amelio massacre but also “on the magistrates” who investigated immediately after the death of Paolo Borsellino. With these words the lawyer Giuseppe Panepinto, lawyer of the policeman Mario Bo, addressed the court. Panepinto listed “the allegations of the prosecution”. The lawyer stressed that yes, that the massacre of via D’Amelio had “the greatest misdirection in Italian judicial history”, as the Supreme Court also says, “but not by the three accused policemen or by magistrates and men of the State “, because the perpetrators of the misdirection were, according to the defense,” three thugs “, that is the false repentants Vincenzo Scarantino, Salvatore Candura and Francesco Andriotta. For the defender of the other two defendants, the lawyer Giuseppe Seminara, Scarantino is a “serial slanderer”. “In reconstructing the facts he drew news from the newspapers, from the statements of other collaborators, from life experiences, from the radio. He retracted in ’95, in ’98, in 2002 and in 2009. He admitted he lied and therefore is unreliable “. This was one of the considerations in the defense pleading of the lawyer Giuseppe Seminara, lawyer of the policemen Michele Ribaudo and Fabrizio Mattei, accused together with Mario Bo in the trial on the misdirection of the investigations following the via D’Amelio massacre. rejected the reconstructions proposed by the prosecution and by the civil parties. But she also did not agree with the conclusions of the Borsellino quater trial for which Vincenzo Scarantino, the false penitent of Guadagna, was induced to lie. “We cannot accept such a conclusion – said the lawyer Seminara – because there are more options, but at the same time it is not said who would have induced Scarantino”. Speaking of the false repentant last June 9 he had stated that the same, despite having the “third grade” is a “smart”. Because “slowly he begins to elaborate and structure himself with respect to what is proposed to him and begins to lie using the information he had at his disposal. “. And then he added: “This is a process that cannot fail to take into account the failure of a system. We, here, must necessarily take note that in those years, for environmental, historical, political reasons, the control system of evidence has failed miserably. ” According to the lawyer “this process, with the absence of so many subjects who died, has certainly caused harm to my clients. This is a process that cannot ignore the failures of the control system of the evidence. With anomalies attributable to the magistrates “. “We must have the courage to find Scarantino ‘unusable’ in all his utterances, so full of lies and ravings that it is not possible to trust him. Faced with ten different versions of Scarantino, how do you choose the one that goes against our defendants? It is a constant forcing “, he said.” Here we are faced with two uncensored subjects, the policemen Fabrizio Mattei and Michele Ribaudo, and a serial slanderer, Vincenzo Scarantino. We can question induction, but on the fact there is no doubt that Scarantino is a slanderer “, he continued during the harangue. “In reconstructing the facts, Scarantino drew news from everything – added the criminal lawyer – from the newspapers, from the statements of other collaborators, from life experiences, from the radio. How many times has he retracted? In 1995, 1998, 2002 and finally in 2009. We must admit that he has retracted four times, admitting that he lied. And therefore, as I define him, he is “unusable”, but I just need to say unreliable “. Now the word passes to the judges of the Court of Caltanissetta. Who will issue the first judgment by this evening. Did the three policemen induce the false repentant Scarantino to tell the falsehood or not?