The Court of Assizes of Palermo sentenced a sentences ranging from 8 to 28 years in prison for the so-called State-Mafia negotiation all the accused, with the exception of Nicola Mancino and the repentant Giovanni Brusca, for whom the prescription was triggered: the former leaders of the Carabinieri del Ros Mario Mori and Antonio Subranni were sentenced to 12 years, twelve years the condemnation also for the former senator Marcello Dell'Utri, while 8 years for the former colonel Giuseppe De Donno. Twenty-eight years, however, the sentence for the boss Leoluca Bagarella.
Massimo Ciancimino, the super witness of the trial, was sentenced to 8 years for slander, but acquitted of the charge of external competition in mafia association. The Sicilian court of second instance has instead former Christian Democrat minister Nicola Mancino acquitted of perjury. It was the words of the then Minister of Justice Claudio Martelli that got Mancino into trouble: "I complained to him about the behavior of the Ros". The convicts were charged with the crime of complicity in threatening a political body of the state, a threat launched by the mafia with bombs.
After 5 years and 6 months of trial, and 5 days in the council chamber, this is therefore the verdict of the Palermo Court of Assizes presided over by Alfredo Montalto (side judge Stefania Brambille) in the trial called to investigate the terrible season of 1992-1993, bloodied by the Falcone and Borsellino and then by the attacks in Rome, Milan and Florence.
According to prosecutors Nino Di Matteo, Francesco Del Bene, Roberto Tartaglia and Vittorio Teresi, in those months State men allegedly negotiated with the leaders of Cosa Nostra: the stated purpose was to block the blackmail of the bombs, but according to the prosecution, the carabinieri officers would have ended up conveying the blackmail launched by the mafia, transforming themselves into ambassadors of the bosses. This was the heart of the indictment of the magistrates, who had asked for heavy sentences in the indictment. The reasons for the sentence will arrive in ninety days.
The sentence has unleashed a new political storm which is destined to inflame even more the negotiations for the new government and to distance, perhaps definitively, I Cinque Stelle and Forza Italia. Di Maio was categorical: "The Second Republic is over". And Salvini thinks about the break with Forza Italia. Harsh reply from the former Knight: “M5S? Offenders and the unemployed".