Massacres '92: life imprisonment for the mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro

The Court of Assizes of Caltanissetta, chaired by Roberta Serio, after more than 14 hours in council chambers, sentenced the fugitive boss Matteo Messina Denaro to life imprisonment for the '92 massacres of Capaci and Via D'Amelio which cost the lives of judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino and the agents of their escorts. Head of the Trapani mafia, Messina Denaro, wanted since 1993, was one of the leaders of the Cosa Nostra massacre line imposed by Totò Riina's Cortonese. According to the accusation, supported in the courtroom by the deputy prosecutor Gabriele Paci, the boss Matteo Messina Denaro would have determined within the Cosa Nostra "a climate of unanimity without which the Corleonese mafia boss Totò Riina would not have been able to carry out his massacre plans, if not at the risk of a mafia war ". "It is not sustainable - explained the magistrate during the indictment, which ended with a request for a life sentence for the fugitive patronage - that Totò Riina would have taken that road anyway without having the consent of Cosa Nostra, because if there had been dissent of the leaders of one of the provinces there would have been a war ". The history of those years, therefore, would not have been the same if Messina Denaro had not supported the Corleonese godfather's line and if he had not helped Riina to nip the voices of internal dissent in the bud. What ended tonight is the third trial that is celebrated in Caltanissetta for the Capaci massacre and the fifth celebrated for the Via D'Amelio massacre. In the other tranches, mafia leaders and material executors of the two attacks were sentenced in various ways.