"Excluding any hypothesis of collusion with the mafia, if Mori and Subranni could have an interest in preserving Provenzano's freedom, this could well be motivated by the conviction that Provenzano's leadership, better than any hypothetical and unlikely pact, would in fact have guaranteed against the risk of the prevalence of massacre instincts or of a return to the hard line of violent opposition to the State ".
The Court of Assizes of Appeal writes this in the sentence on the so-called State-Mafia negotiation, arguing that the carabinieri wanted to "favor Provenzano's inaction in a soft way".
"There were therefore unspeakable reasons of 'national interest' not to upset the balance of power within the Cosa Nostra which sanctioned the hegemony of Provenzano and his strategy of invisibility or submersion - they explain -, at least until it was this was the line imposed on the whole organization. A superior interest pushed to be allies of one's enemy in order to counter an even more dangerous enemy ".
