Cafiero De Raho favored for the nomination of National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor

Next week, on November 8, the CSM plenum will nominate Franco Roberti's successor at the head of the national anti-mafia and anti-terrorism prosecution. The favorite is the current prosecutor of Reggio Calabria Federico Cafiero De Raho: in the Commission he received five votes in favor compared to only one consensus for his direct competitor, the prosecutor of Palermo Roberto Scarpinato. A fact that makes it more than likely that he will be the successor of Roberti, who retires on November 16.
If the script is followed, for De Raho it will be a sort of “compensation” from the CSM, which in July, by a few votes, preferred Giovanni Melillo to his candidacy for prosecutor of Naples, who had left his post as cabinet chief of Justice Minister Orlando a few months earlier. Neapolitan, 65, De Raho has a long experience in the fight against organized crime.
For a good part of his career, in Naples, he conducted investigations against the Camorra and, in particular, against the Casalesi clan; his curriculum highlights the 'Spartacus' trial, which led to the conviction of hundreds of Camorristi and which marked - as the rapporteur of the majority proposal Paola Balducci writes - "one of the most important moments in the fight of the State" against the Campanian clans.
Having moved on to deal with the 'ndrangheta with his appointment in March 2013 as prosecutor of Reggio Calabria, De Raho has also dealt with Cosa Nostra and terrorism (at the beginning of his career in Milan he followed the investigations following the Alessandrini murder and is the exclusive holder of the sector in Reggio Calabria). All elements, which combined with the attention paid to investigative coordination and international cooperation (De Raho has maintained relationships with Europol, Eurojust and the DEA), according to the majority report, lead to preferring the Reggio prosecutor to Scarpinato.
The minority report in favor of Scarpinato (rapporteur Valerio Fracassi) instead emphasizes the "extraordinary results" achieved by the magistrate, who is 65 years old, was born in Caltanissetta and was among other things a prosecutor in the Andreotti trial. The Attorney General of Palermo - the document underlines - has dealt with "the most important "historical" trials of the Sicilian mafia (starting with the one against Michele Greco for the political murders of Cosa Nostra, Piersanti Mattarella and Pio La Torre). He has a "superior" knowledge of the mafia phenomenon and has held managerial roles for longer than his competitor (he was also Attorney General of Caltanissetta).
The November 8 appointment is not the only weighty one that awaits the CSM. By December, the entire top of the Court of Cassation must be redesigned, to replace the first president Giovanni Canzio and the Attorney General Pasquale Ciccolo, who are retiring. And their "deputies" must also be appointed. A challenging game also for the candidates who have entered the field. Among others, the former president of the ANM Piercamillo Davigo, the head of the Dap Santi Consolo, the Attorney General of Rome, Giovanni Salvi and that of Naples, Luigi Riello, are competing for the post of Attorney General.
Davigo is also a candidate for the position of first president, which sees among the many competitors, together with many presidents of sections in the Court of Cassation, also the presidents of the Courts of Appeal of Rome, Luciano Panzani, of Milan, Marina Tavassi and of Florence Margherita Cassano.