"As a carabiniere after 42 years of service I thought who knows what I will say when I leave the Carabinieri Army. Then you are there and you don't say anything. Yes, after all I have already spoken". Colonel Sergio De Caprio, the Last Captain who arrested Totò Riina, takes leave with this tweet from the weapon. It is not yet a formal farewell because De Caprio is now on leave, after having been appointed councilor for the Calabria Region, but in a year he will still have to leave the uniform due to age limits.
De Caprio, born in '61, in his turbulent career he passed from Ros, to Noe, to Services to land, as a last assignment, to the Command for the protection of biodiversity and the parks of the Forestry Carabinieri. About twenty days ago the new president of the Calabria Region Jole Santelli appointed him councilor for the environment. "The goal is to fight the 'ndrangheta and the exchange vote: if someone does not want to do this battle, I will go," Ultimo told Famiglia Cristiana, talking about what awaits him in Calabria. And on the danger of his being exploited, he added: "The risk is there, but people must be judged for what they do. It is a question of whether to go down to the arena to fight or stand by the window and watch. I accepted this assignment to the common good and the principles of equality and brotherhood. Then everything can happen. You can always exploit anything, but if others have different intentions, it doesn't depend on me. "
The tweet in which Ultimo announces the farewell to the Benemerita - formally De Caprio is still an officer of the Arma, in whose ranks he could always return if the expectation ended before the imminent leave for age limits - is accompanied by his photos with their faces covered, as they usually appear in public, together with one of his beloved birds of prey. The photo was taken at the Tenuta della Mistica, on the outskirts of Rome, where Ultimo founded a family home run by an association of volunteers that bears his name.
