Brusca Libero, Li Gotti: “Your exceptional contribution”

“I have assisted Giovanni Brusca from the beginning, from the first interrogation and for many years, so I followed his path. I can say that this reaction, more than anything else from the political world, shows that our politicians do not know the laws they make. But they don’t even know the code. If they are so scandalized, then they abolish the law on collaborators of justice. If everyone agrees, if everyone says they have been punched in the stomach and that this is not justice, very well, seen that there is a one hundred percent parliament lined up, it takes them a week to abolish the law “. To tell AdnKronos, commenting on the release of Giovanni Brusca after 25 years of imprisonment due to the penalty discounts obtained as a collaborator of justice, is the lawyer Luigi Li Gotti, who in his career, as well as the repentant Tommaso Buscetta, he also defended Giovanni Brusca himself. “This indignation is gut – explains the lawyer -, but I can understand it if it comes from the common citizen, who may not understand, may consider the application of the law unjust, the citizen has the right to indignation, but the politician does not, the politician has duties of loyalty towards the electorate, so he has the duty to respect his function “. For Li Gotti,” if they want to understand what happened, in Brusca’s case a simple thing happened. The mitigation of collaboration was applied abruptly, and no one was scandalized trial by trial. Once the trials are over, the so-called ‘juridical accumulation’ envisaged by the code is made and applies to anyone, collaborators of justice or common convicts. legal status of Brusca is 30 years, and he has served them, that’s all. The indignation, therefore, had to be sentence by sentence, not now that the rule on juridical accumulation has taken effect. It was known that Brusca had a juridical accumulation of 30 ann i, and 30 years have passed. And the most rigorous rule was also applied to him, because for the collaborators of justice it is foreseen that a quarter of a sentence could have access to home detention. It was granted to everyone, but not to Brusca, because his request for access to house arrest after a quarter sentence was not taken into consideration. But I told him that the sentence would have served all of it. And he did it all “. As for the reliability and reliability of Brusca as a collaborator of justice, Li Gotti has no doubts:” Brusca deserved to be included among the collaborators of justice, he made an exceptional contribution, in the sense that it has allowed the knowledge of many facts at different levels, has found weapons, arsenals, explosives, has prevented other massacres, other crimes from being committed. His collaboration undoubtedly disrupted the armed organization of the Cosa Nostra, because it also led to many arrests, and this caused a further landslide of the mafia organization. What then did it at the beginning for calculation … but the law does not provide for repentance, it provides for collaboration “. As for the hypothesis that Brusca can still conceal secrets that have never been revealed that could be taken to the grave, Li Gotti says:” I always told Brusca to talk as if he were walking. When one walks, one places one’s foot when the ground is firm. If the ground is collapsed, one must not put the foot. Therefore, I have always advised Brusca to be careful when he spoke, because it takes consistency in the story, and the magistrates, however, also want to know the things that cannot be proved, but then those minutes go into the trials. And so I told Brusca to be careful, because then we find ourselves discovered in front of unprovable stories that not even the judiciary is able to prove. So I told him to be careful. He undoubtedly followed this advice of mine. Now, I don’t know if there is also some omission in the concept of prudence “.