Negotiation process, Utri’s wife: “A nightmare ends”

“In Palermo there is a judge. His name is Angelo Pellino. Chapeau against him. I hope that this sentence marks a starting point for the construction of a true rule of law. We hope that we go forward in the right way. For us, a nightmare”. Speaking, in an interview with Adnkronos, is Miranda Ratti, the wife of Marcello Dell’Utri, the former senator acquitted “because the fact does not exist” in the appeal process on the negotiations between the state and the mafia. Dell’Utri was accused of threatening the body politic of the state. A clear acquittal for the former politician who has now finished serving a sentence of seven years in prison for competing with a foreign mafia association. For the judges of the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Palermo Dell’Utri would not have acted as a “transmission belt”, as the first instance judges who sentenced him to 12 years wrote, of the second negotiation put in place by the Cosa sponsors ours towards the Berlusconi government, which took office in 1994. Read also “This is our victory – says Mrs. Miranda – I who do not believe in the judiciary, and I am referring, for example, to the Palamara case at the lodge of Hungary, I can say today that there is a judge in Palermo “. And he remembers these last few years, after the final sentence, the prison, the illness, the negotiation process. “A very high price that we all paid in the family, even the boys – he continues – there was always this’ brand ‘of the mafia. When there were people who came to see the house they said:’ Ah, but this is the house of a mafia “. And I would reply: ‘Please take a seat’. Above all, people abroad do not know the political dynamics of a state. And, in the end, what a newspaper writes becomes truth “. For Miranda Dell’Utri, with the appeal sentence yesterday afternoon,” a nightmare ends “,” now we start again, both on our part and on her part “. . And remember that the judges in the sentence also “have removed the expatriation”, “so, finally, he can take a little vacation, since since 2014 he hasn’t had a single day of vacation”. And speaking to Adnkronos of the seven-year sentence for external competition, he unleashes: “He has made an unjust prison that no one repays him. He also risked his life, with sepsis in prison. Are we joking? It was a dramatic thing “. Then he thanked his lawyers” who were very good “who” were able to reconstruct and bring out the shame of this accusation “.” The PCs said ‘it can be deduced that’, but not you can do a trial on deductions. Something out of this world that a PC brings something so questionable before a court. I am grateful to this judge Pellino not only for my husband but also for the generals Mori, Subranni and for Colonel De Donno “.” Now we await the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights “, she says.” Because there is still one. the appeal of our lawyers is at stake “. (by Elvira Terranova)