Judge Borsellino’s brother says, “I won’t see justice or truth anymore.”

Rome, July 13 (EFE). – Salvatore Borsellino, brother of anti-mafia judge Paolo Borsellino, who was assassinated 30 years ago, Effie confirmed today that he is deeply disappointed by the verdict that stipulated the charges against two of the three accused policemen. Diverting the investigation into the historical attack with false leads, while a third party was acquitted.

It is a serious blow to the hope for justice and truth: “I hope that when I am gone, not even the relatives of the other victims, whether they are young They ask for truth and justice, they may see them, and I am sure they will not.”

The court of Caltanissetta (southern Italy) considered this Tuesday, after more than 10 hours of deliberation, that the crimes committed by Mario Po and Fabrizio Matti had been stipulated after not recognizing the aggravated slander of his preference for the Mafia, as well as the acquittal of the third. Defendant, Michele Ribaudo.

Paolo Borsellino, who with his colleague Giovanni Falcone formed the most emblematic pair of Italy’s anti-mafia judges, was killed along with five agents of his escorts in a car bomb explosion in Palermo on July 19, 1992 in what is known as the massacre. From Via d’Amelio.

Although the Mafia condemned the attack, the Borsellino family is convinced of the complicity of the state in the murder, which, they claim, took place at the time when they colluded with Cosa Nostra, the bloodthirsty Sicilian mafia.

“It sounds like a coincidence,” Salvatore said, “but usually these hopeless blows coincide with anniversaries, as now when they’re 30 years old, the one we’ve been waiting for” was an “empty” operation. “.

The three accused were “the last of the series, police officers who were unable to establish what has been defined by the justice system as the ‘most serious deception’ in the history of Italy” and although the matter continues to examine the possibility of asylum, it appears deep down “useless”.

According to the prosecution, the defendants belonging to the group charged with investigating the 1992 mafia massacres, including the Falcone and Borsellino massacres, decided to “create” false witnesses, forced to lie and accuse people of the massacre. who later turned out to be innocent.

The network of lies built thanks to false collaborators with justice helped, according to prosecutors, to cover up the responsibilities of the Brancaccio mafia clan and its leaders for years, because of which they were accused of favoring Cosa Nostra, an aggravating circumstance of punishment that the court ultimately did not accept.

However, the ruling does not rule out deception committed in the investigation into Borsellino’s murder.

Next week marks the 30th anniversary of the Via de Emilio massacre, which occurred less than two months after the brutal murder of Falcone, his wife and three of his clients, with 500 kilograms of explosives on the highway between the airport and Palermo, on May 23, 1992. EFE

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