The President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano will testify in the trial for the negotiation between the state and the mafia. This was decided by the judges of the Court of Assizes of Palermo who thus accepted the request made by the prosecutors in the last hearing. Napolitano had already been cited as a witness on October 17, 2013 and through a letter to the Court of Assizes he had made it known that he had nothing to report on the negotiation.
Napolitano will have to be heard about the letter received from his legal adviser at the time, Loris D'Ambrosio, following the publication of the phone calls between D'Ambrosio himself and former president Nicola Mancino.
The Head of State will have to report in the courtroom on the "concerns expressed by his legal adviser Loris D'Ambrosio in the letter of June 18, 2012 - concerning D'Ambrosio's fear "of having been considered only a naive and useful scribe of things useful to serve as a shield for unspeakable agreements”, and that is in the period between 1989 and 1993». D'Ambrosio died in July 2012, aged 64, of a heart attack.
