Piersanti Mattarella: 40 years later we are looking for the truth

Piersanti Mattarella forty years later.

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The dream of a region "with all its paperwork" remains. What remains is the search for the truth, which is still incomplete and is struggling to find its way along the path of a connection between Cosa Nostra and black terrorism. Today Palermo remembered its regional president, killed on Epiphany 1980. Wreaths of flowers at the scene of the murder. Then the naming of the English Garden. Finally, the solemn session of the Sicilian Regional Assembly, in front of the Head of State, Sergio Mattarella, among the first to rescue and take his brother in his arms immediately after the ambush. The Mafia and the spiral of terrorism had destroyed the island's most authoritative political hope, Aldo Moro's pupil, a tenacious and capable Sicilian, a clear-sighted and stubborn advocate of rigorous and innovative policies. This is a challenge that remains extremely relevant, along with the challenge of uncovering the full truth about this crime, which the Palermo prosecutor's office is still working to fully reconstruct. "The mafia and corruption in Italy remain two scourges that must be eradicated and eradicated in all their forms and manifestations, through the commitment of all: institutions, politicians, and citizens," stated Senate President Elisabetta Casellati, who warned: "To date, we only know part of the truth about Mattarella's murder. It is the institutions' priority to fully pursue those responsible, to honor his memory and bring justice to his family." Piersanti was "an honest and rigorous politician, a servant of the state, an example of redemption for the younger generations and for all those who have contributed and continue to contribute with determination to the fight against the Mafia," wrote the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Roberto Fico, on Twitter. Also in Palermo was the Minister for the South, Giuseppe Provenzano: "If we're here, it's because the Mafia didn't win the war; the institutions responded by overthrowing and defeating Cosa Nostra's military arm." But "if the mafia hasn't won, it hasn't lost either because its power of infiltration is still present. Piersanti Mattarella's work must be completed: we need an efficient Sicily and South and to form a new ruling class that will break the collusion Mattarella fought for." (AGI)Mrg (Continued) 061327 JAN 20 NNNN= THE POINT = Piersanti Mattarella: 40 years later we are looking for the truth (2) = (AGI) - Palermo, 6 Jan. - Former prosecutor Pietro Grasso recalled that "the case was immediately conditioned by an intense effort to divert attention. The regional president had launched a decisive reform policy to rebuild the economic, social, and cultural fabric of a "Sicily with all its paperwork in order." A project that threatened the interests of the mafia and certain politicians. The truth, after forty years, has still not emerged and must still be sought in that mafia-style political power bloc that hides so many, too many secrets." It is a fact that 40 years ago the Island once again fell into its hell, into a fate that appeared increasingly sealed and without escape or redemption possible. This same area of ​​the city, around Via Liberta', the urban heart of the capital, had become the crossroads of mafia terror in those years: nearby, on Via Di Blasi, on July 21, 79, the head of the Flying Squad, Boris Giuliano, had been killed. A trail of blood, which began that year, on January 26, with the killing of journalist Mario Francese. The following March 9th it was the turn of the provincial secretary of the DC, Michele Reina. On September 25, 79, Judge Cesare Terranova and Marshal Lenin Mancuso were killed. Piersanti Mattarella had long realized the need to urgently and decisively sever the ties between politics and his party with the Mafia. The legal process was long and complex. And not definitive. The bosses of the Cosa Nostra commission (Toto' Riina and Michele Greco above all, along with the other members of the dome: Bernardo Provenzano, Bernardo Brusca, Pippo Calo', Francesco Madonia and Antonino Geraci) were sentenced to life imprisonment as the instigators. The investigation, however, failed to identify either the hitmen or the alleged external instigators. In 2018, the Palermo prosecutor's office reopened the murder investigation: new investigations were deemed necessary, including through complex comparisons of ballistic evidence, although complicated by the long time that had passed and the final sentences. The NAR (Nuclei Armati Rivoluzione) were once again in the crosshairs, whose leader, the black terrorist Giusva Fioravanti, recognized by Piersanti Mattarella's widow, Irma Chiazzese, was tried and definitively acquitted of the charge of being the killer. One of the exhibits from the trial held in Palermo, the license plate of one of the commando's cars, was apparently split in two by the perpetrators of the theft, and one part was later found in a hideout of the neo-fascist terrorist organization. From a procedural standpoint, moreover, the collaboration between "blacks" and mafiosi in various criminal acts and actions, based on an alleged exchange of favors between the mafia and far-right terrorism, had already been supported several times, for example in the December 1984 massacre of the Rapido 904 train. Then there is the final chapter on the weapons that killed Piersanti Mattarella and the anti-terrorism judge Mario Amato; they are of the same type, a Colt Cobra .38 Special caliber, but there is no certainty about their identity: it cannot be said that the president of the Sicilian Region and the judge, assassinated respectively in Palermo and Rome, in the space of just under six months in 1980, were killed with the same pistol. At this stage, this is a hypothesis considered "suggestive," but one for which there cannot be the necessary technical evidence, the only evidence that could provide some objective or quasi-objective confirmation. In the new investigation by the Carabinieri ROS, coordinated by prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi, any comparison with the bullets extracted from Mattarella's body, due to the very long time that has passed since the incident, is essentially impossible.