Borsellino's red agenda, searches of the former police chief De Gennaro

The ROS carabinieri carried out, in the province of Rome, six search warrants issued by the Caltanissetta Prosecutor's Office as part of the investigation into the Via D'Amelio massacre and the disappearance of judge Paolo Borsellino's red agenda.

The searches concerned, among other things, premises available to the former police chief Gianni De Gennaro, the repentant Salvatore Contorno, De Gennaro's collaborator Donatella Peruzzi, his protection officer Massimo Carnicelli and De Gennaro's former collaborator Francesco Pacetto, former police inspector.

The investigative activity, coordinated by the prosecutor Salvatore De Luca, aims to shed light on the possible responsibilities of members of institutional apparatus, subordinate to the former head of the Palermo Flying Squad Arnaldo La Barbera, in the misdirection of the investigations into the Via D'Amelio massacre and the disappearance of the red agenda.

The Caltanissetta prosecutor's office, which has been carrying out investigations on the '92 massacres for years, has re-examined events, already defined judicially, such as the arrest of the repentant Salvatore Contorno, which took place in San Nicola l'Arena (PA) at dawn on 26 May 1989, in circumstances never fully clarified either by the Flying Squad, which conducted the blitz, or by the Central Anti-Crime Unit of the State Police, then led by De Gennaro, and like the anonymous people of the so-called "Palermo crow" who preceded the attack on Giovanni Falcone in Addaura. Facts, according to the prosecutors, essential to reconstruct the massacres of '92.

According to the prosecutors of Caltanissetta, precisely the reconstruction of these circumstances would allow us to say that the acceleration of the massacre in Via D'Amelio, the disappearance of the red agenda and the minimalist interpretation of the attacks made by the former head of the Mobile Arnaldo La Barbera and endorsed by the Prosecutor of the Republic of Caltanissetta at the time Giovanni Tinebra, were aimed at facilitating subjects external to Cosa Nostra.

The investigations conducted by the Nisseni prosecutors would also have reconstructed all the passages of judge Borsellino's bag, which ended up in La Barbera's office shortly after the explosion without any report ever being drawn up and presumably remained there until the beginning of November 1992, when it was formally found for the first time by the magistrates of Caltanissetta, and to document the membership of the prosecutor Giovanni Tinebra to the Freemasons. "Since the first investigations - writes the Prosecutor's Office in a note - there has been an apparently unjustified concern on the part of De Gennaro, both for the investigation, which in September 2023 had been partly made known following the searches ordered against the members of the family of the deceased Dr. La Barbera, and for the progress of the trial for the misdirection underway at the Court of Caltanissetta".

Furthermore, according to the prosecutors, De Gennaro would have worked, making use not only of his guardian b, but of another of his very close collaborators, Francesco Pacetto, to prevent Salvatore Contorno from making statements to the Nisseni magistrates. Furthermore, through his former collaborator, Donatella Peruzzi - under the DIS - De Gennaro allegedly hid documentation, later recovered by the R.O.S. relating to judicial documents and press articles on Contorno's arrest. The Prosecutor's Office specifies in the note released that De Gennaro and the others are not under investigation for the crime of massacre and that the searches were carried out in a proceeding against unknown persons for the attack in Borsellino.