After 18 years of investigations, we’re closer to the truth about the massacre of Via d’Amelio of July 19^th 1992, in which  anti-mafia judge Paolo Borsellino and 5 men from his escort were killed in an explosion. “An incredible and heavy truth that the political world couldn’t withstand,” were the words spoken before the Anti-Mafia Commission by the prosecutors of Caltanissetta Sergio Lari and Nico Gozzo who have reopened the investigation on the assassination of Judge Paolo Borsellino.

“The judiciary,” said Gozzo, “will be able to hold the truths that are emerging on the massacres. The state also will be able to support them. I don’t know, however, if the same will make policy.”

“It’s a crucial moment,” said Lari, “two years have elapsed from the first declarations of Gaspare Spatuzza. From the evidence we acquired it appears that it was not only the Mafia who wanted the massacre in via D’Amelio.” In other words, a contract between the Italian state and the mafia, Lari reiterated, proved that there were “people who despite having the duty of loyalty to the institutions betrayed these principles.”

Meanwhile, the Board considered it appropriate to apply the secret contents of the hearing today: the scenarios outlined by the magistrates contain elements that investigations are deepening.

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