Borsellino misdirection: charges prescribed for 2 policemen, the third acquitted

The mafia aggravating circumstance falls for two of the three policemen accused of the Borsellino misdirection process. The crimes for Mario Bo and Fabrizio Mattei have been prescribed while Michele Ribaudo has been acquitted. The trial sentence arrived after almost ten hours. The statute of limitations therefore saves two of the three policemen for whom the prosecution had asked for very high penalties. The policeman Michele Ribaudo was acquitted “because the fact does not constitute a crime”, reads the operative part of the sentence. Thus the lawyer Fabio Trizzino, husband of Lucia Borsellino and civil lawyer of the brothers Lucia, Manfredi and Fiammetta Borsellino. “The Court did not accept our reconstruction, especially the aggravating circumstance – he said – it is a sentence that must be respected. The fact that I would like to highlight is that Doctor Bo and Inspector Mattei have committed the slander. The statute of limitations saves them because the facts date back to almost thirty years ago, the element of slander remains “. A sentence “that does not satisfy us”, he concluded. “This is a sentence which, by linking up with the verdict of Borsellino quater, allows us to identify Bo and Mattei as competitors in the crime of slander. The fact that the State exercised its punitive power late has sheltered them, but it is a sentence that does not satisfy us but we take what is good “, Trizzino affirmed.” Evidently there were no elements to absolve them … Let’s say that after 30 years, despite the misdirection, another piece of truth comes out. Of course, the disruptive effect will not be there but the policemen Bo and Mattei will not be able to say that they have nothing to do with the crime “, the lawyer Rosalba Digregorio told Adnkronos. , lawyer of the civil party in the misdirection process on the Via D’Amelio massacre, after the sentence. Digregorio is the lawyer of Gaetano Murana who was unjustly sentenced to life imprisonment for the massacre. “Prescribed means that there are not sufficient elements to declare the acquittal but it does not mean that there are as many elements of certainty for guilt, the essential fact is that there is a prescription”. The lawyer Giuseppe Panepinto, lawyer of the policeman Mario Bo, said this after the sentence handed down this evening in Caltanissetta. “It is a sentence that does not satisfy us because we believe that our clients are completely unrelated to the disputed facts. We will read the reasons and understand what to do”, added Panepinto.