Turin, 12 Oct. (LaPresse) – “What is the main obstacle to piecing together the history of the Mafia massacres? First and foremost, time: 34 years have passed. The witnesses are no longer with us, the documentation has been destroyed and many files have gone missing. Then, as has emerged from the Commission’s work, it almost seems as though certain issues cannot be addressed because, as soon as one asks to examine specific roles and circumstances in greater depth, one is accused of misleading the investigation or of acting in the interests of others. These are outrageous accusations that were levelled even at Dr Borsellino’s own children, simply because they approached the Commission asking for this possible line of inquiry – amongst the causes leading to the Via D’Amelio massacre – to be explored as well. In essence, it seems that, a priori, no investigation can be carried out into the conduct of the magistrates who were in charge of the ‘ ‘Mafia-contracts’ investigation’ until July 1992, openly maintaining that, almost as a matter of faith, one must believe in the integrity of their actions simply because some of them carried out important investigations in the years that followed (not always with positive results in terms of convictions) and went on to have distinguished careers in the fight against Mafia organisations.” So said Chiara Colosimo, chair of the Anti-Mafia Commission, in an interview with ‘La Verità’. “In Palermo,” she added, “we are seeing a series of errors accompanied by a series of omissions and ‘simplistic choices’, as Falcone called them – which ultimately result in the effective dismissal of the entire case (the entire Natoli case 3589/91) and a large part of the case originating from the ROS dossier (2789/90), which in effect amounted to a favour granted to Cosa Nostra”.
Mafia, Colosimo: “Bosses favoured by errors and omissions in investigations”
Turin, 12 Oct. (LaPresse) – “What is the main obstacle to piecing together the history of the Mafia massacres? First and foremost, time: 34 years have passed. The witnesses are no longer with us, the documentation has been destroyed and many files have gone missing. Then, as has emerged from the Commission’s work, it almost seems as though certain issues cannot be addressed because, as soon as one asks to examine specific roles and circumstances in greater depth, one is accused of misleading the investigation or of acting in the interests of others. These are outrageous accusations that were levelled even at Dr Borsellino’s own children, simply because they approached the Commission asking for this possible line of inquiry – amongst the causes leading to the Via D’Amelio massacre – to be explored as well. In essence, it seems that, a priori, no investigation can be carried out into the conduct of the magistrates who were in charge of the ‘ ‘Mafia-contracts’ investigation’ until July 1992, openly maintaining that, almost as a matter of faith, one must believe in the integrity of their actions simply because some of them carried out important investigations in the years that followed (not always with positive results in terms of convictions) and went on to have distinguished careers in the fight against Mafia organisations.” So said Chiara Colosimo, chair of the Anti-Mafia Commission, in an interview with ‘La Verità’. “In Palermo,” she added, “we are seeing a series of errors accompanied by a series of omissions and ‘simplistic choices’, as Falcone called them – which ultimately result in the effective dismissal of the entire case (the entire Natoli case 3589/91) and a large part of the case originating from the ROS dossier (2789/90), which in effect amounted to a favour granted to Cosa Nostra”.