To calculate the state of freedom of information in Italy, there is an excellent unit measurement: the space devoted by the press and national news in the ongoing process in Palermo against the former head of Ros and then SISMI, General Mario Mori, and his deputy, col. Obinu Mario for aiding and abetting the Mafia Due to the non capture of Bernardo Provenzano in 1995. A little something from nothing. Not a line, a word about the hearings that are followed by mid-July. In the classroom you do not see almost never a reporter and never entered a single camera. One of the rare exceptions is Lirio Abbate, the brave journalist who lives under cover of ANSA to the mafia threats after writing "The Accomplices" by Peter Gomez. Wednesday signed three launches agency on the long deposition of the first prosecution witness: General Michael Riccio, who was also the former Ros, accusing him of Mori and Obinu prevented capture Provenzano 13 years ago in a cottage Mezzojuso indicated by mafioso his confidant Louis Ilardo, then killed by Cosa Nostra after agreeing to cooperate with justice.
that night and in the days following any national newspaper or news has taken over the news. Tg1, for example, was busy interviewing the producer De Laurentiis on new film panettone Christian De Sica. A pity, because Riccio said when he met Ilardo Mori and told him: "The massacres have not only made us the mafia, but you also state". Mori, instead ask for explanations or disagree, he turned on his heels and - according to Riccio - went away without saying a word. Riccio then hath been talked about a strange meeting in Taormina study: "My lawyer Carlo Taormina Senator Dell'Utri brought me under the pretext of studying the papers of his trial. He went to greet the lawyer Cesare Previti (which did not participate the meeting, ed) ... Taormina asked me to say, processes for the Mafia in Palermo, Ilardo that I had never talked about Dell'Utri. Instead he talked about him all right. Riccio - reports ANSA - did not follow the loving advice of Taormina and months later revoked the mandate. Previti - remember Riccio - Taormina was also present at another meeting. An interesting presence, his, even if "inactive", since - as recalled by Riccio - Previti knew Mori and "often came to see him in the offices of the ROS.
More: "In 1994 I saw that the Moors from the office moved to another room the silver plate that had been given by Previti, commenting with a joke: 'change the government, it must also change the layout of the tray' .... " After rebuilding the failed blitz Mezzojuso, Riccio report the names Ilardo him before he died: the names of people who were linked to the Cosa Nostra or friends of friends, on which he could not say more because he was killed before making record his statements. And, among others, cites Dolcino Combs, Attorney General of Catanzaro regent who last year took off with Luigi De Magistris investigated "Why Not" and that in the past had been in service in Syracuse. Combs - reports ANSA - would be "managed" by a lawyer of Lentini "A man very close to the boss Santapaola. All statements to be verified, of course (the process used to that). But rather engaging and topical. Too bad that none of the stories.
Ps. A month ago, this writer was sentenced to 8 months imprisonment in the first degree for defaming Previti Espresso bringing the story of Curly pm to Palermo on the presence of former deputy in the study Taormina on the day of the meeting between the lawyer, Dell'Utri and the officer. Tg1 broke the news with great emphasis. Now that Riccio in court reaffirmed and expanded its story, the TG1 is silent. Long live the public service.
Marco Travaglio
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