The repentant Giovanni Brusca, the former boss of San Giuseppe Jato, leaves the prison. He has finished serving his sentence and from today the ex killer of Cosa Nostra who on 23 May 1992 activated the remote control for the Capaci massacre is a free man. In the afternoon, as the online Espresso writes, “u verru” (the pig) as he was nicknamed in the mafia circles left the Rebibbia prison.
Brusca was released from prison due to the law of February 13, 2001 thanks to which he finished serving his prison sentence for the Italian State. Having chosen to collaborate with the justice system, he obtained the penalty discounts provided for by the law.
THE REACTIONS
“Humanly it is news that pains me, but this is the law, a law that my brother also wanted and therefore must be respected – he says Maria Falcone, sister of Judge Giovanni Falcone – I just hope that the judiciary and the police will be vigilant with extreme attention in order to avert the danger of committing a crime again, given that we are talking about a person who has had a path of collaboration with the justice system very tortuous. Any other comment seems to me completely inappropriate “.
“The same judiciary on several occasions has expressed doubts about the completeness of Brusca’s revelations, especially those relating to the patrimony which, probably, has not all been confiscated: it is no longer the time for half-truths and it would be an insult to Giovanni, Francesca, Vito , Antonio and Rocco that a man who has committed horrible crimes can return free to enjoy riches stained with blood “says Maria Falcone.
“I am indignant, I am truly indignant. The State is rowing against us. After 29 years we still do not know the truth about the massacres and Giovanni Brusca, the man who destroyed my family, is free. Do you know what the truth is? State is rowing against us. What am I going to tell my grandson now? That the man who killed his grandfather turns freely? … “. Tina Montinaro is the widow of Antonio Montinaro, Giovanni Falcone’s foreman. He has just learned of Giovanni Brusca’s release from prison and does not hide his bitterness.
“The whole of Italy should be indignant and not just me who lost my husband – she says in an interview with Adnkronos – But it doesn’t happen. These people only come to commemorate Falcone on 23 May and remember ‘Giovanni e Paolo’. But no one is indignant “. For Tina Montinaro, who is in the police today to go around the schools to tell who her husband was, the guardian angel of Falcone, all of Sicily “should take to the streets”. “I am truly indignant and embittered – she says – When these gentlemen make these decisions, like the release of Brusca, they don’t think about us family members, they don’t think about the victims”.
“The State is not giving a great example – he says – We have a State that has made a fake memory. Words are lacking. What’s underneath? The truth has not been told to us and he is out and they continue to say why he collaborated … It’s incredible. Or he told a truth that we haven’t been told. ” In short, for Tina Montinaro “there is a justice that is not justice, so it is useless to look for Matteo Messina Denaro, we continue to remember, I know that there is a state that is rowing against us, a policy that is rowing against us. .. “.
“It is news that certainly does not please me. It is an offense to the people who died in that massacre. In my opinion they should have thrown away the keys.” So Giuseppe Costanza, judge Falcone’s driver who escaped the Capaci massacre, comments with the Adnkronos the release for end of sentence of Giovanni Brusca.
“29 years have passed since that day, but neither Falcone, nor his wife, nor the boys of the escort will ever be able to come back to life – he adds – What country is ours? Whoever stains himself with such massacres for me must no longer leave the jail”. If he had the chance to do so what would he say to the man who operated the remote control that caused the explosion? “Nothing. I don’t even feel like getting close to such a person.”
“Author of the Capaci massacre, murderer among others of the little Giuseppe Di Matteo, dissolved in acid because he was the son of a repentant. After 25 years in prison, the mafia boss Giovanni Brusca returns free. This is not the ‘justice’ that Italians deserve “says the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini.
Giorgia Meloni comments: “The boss of Cosa Nostra Giovanni Brusca – the ‘scannacristiani’ who ‘committed and personally ordered over one hundred and fifty crimes’, blew up Judge Falcone and his escort and ordered to strangle and dissolve the little Di Matteo – is back free. It is news that leaves you breathless and gives you chills. The idea that such a character is free again is unacceptable, it is an affront for the victims, for the fallen against the mafia and for all the servants of the state who every day are on the front line against organized crime. 25 years in prison are too few for what he has done. It is a defeat for everyone, a shame for the whole of Italy “.
” Abrupt free? I don’t want to believe it – writes the mayor of Rome in a tweet, Virginia Raggi – It is an unacceptable shame, an injustice for the whole country. Always on the side of the victims and those who fight and have fought against the mafia “.
“At the age of 64 he has the ability to return to being immediately efficient, it is true that he remains on probation for four years but I remember that there are 70-year-olds who continue to lead the mafia associations” says the president of the Anti-Mafia Commission. Nicola Morra, commenting with the Adnkronos on the words of the widow of Giovanni Falcone’s foreman. And then he adds: “The words of Tina Montinaro, in my opinion, retain a lump of truth, when it evokes the hypocrisy that accompanies so many official celebrations for May 23 or July 19”.
“On the one hand I understand who still has the scars of those massacres – says Morra – in his words there is a fund of truth on which all of us should reason. We remember in particular the exact occurrence of the recurrences, but in fact we let ourselves be caught unprepared by that wise management by so many men who work for the antistate in those small mechanisms with which those who attacked and offended the State find themselves not a defeated but a winner “.
“And here the thought goes not to the single release, therefore to what happened today with Giovanni Brusca but to the problem of life imprisonment and how we find it difficult to recognize the virulence of the mafia phenomenon, so I don’t feel like condemning the words of Indeed, Tina Montinaro seems to me that everyone must think about the lump of truth that emerges from Tina Montinaro’s own words. Then of course I do not associate myself with very hasty and careless judgments in a justicialistic key such as those of Salvini “.
“It is understandable that it may make an impression that the man who killed Giovanni Falcone, who was responsible for the horrible death of little Giuseppe Di Matteo, can return to freedom, but moral condemnation is one thing, what it foresees is another. the legal system. And it must be accepted “, comments the former deputy prosecutor of Palermo Antonio Ingroia.
Per Rita Dalla Chiesa “The release of Giovanni Brusca is a shame of the State. I am shocked by what happened – he declares to Adnkronos – I did not expect yet another shame of justice in Italy”.
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