Natoli, 'new attacks from De Luca despite the flop of his investigation'

"For the third time I was the subject of heavy media attacks by Dr. De Luca in the anti-mafia commission. After being investigated and intercepted for two years for the alleged hypothesis of having favored the mafia and the business and political world connected to it, Dr. De Luca did not civilly apologize for the total failure of this investigative hypothesis (which, in fact, was dismissed by the investigating judge due to the non-existence of the fact), that anyone who knew me as a magistrate (starting with the lawyers defenders of the mafiosi that I would have favored) has always considered it surreal. Nor has he reported that, again according to the investigating judge (and, fortunately, not only according to him), I have always behaved 'affectively and actually' loyally towards Dr. Borsellino". The former magistrate Gioacchino Natoli says this after the hearing of the Caltanissetta prosecutor Salvatore De Luca in the Anti-Mafia commission.

"De Luca instead closed his hearing (for the first time on an archived investigation, for which the ban on revealing office secrets was finally not in force), reiterating his opinion regarding my underestimation of a proceeding which, after 35 years, he believes is linked to the infamous mafia-procurement relationship deriving from the Ros dossier, which I never asked for it to be archived because I never dealt with it", he explains.

"In the Anti-Mafia Commission, the prosecutor, rather than reporting on the evidentiary vacuum in which his investigation sank, instead concentrated on the tenor of a conversation I had with Sen. Scarpinato, during which I was invited to 'bury' President Colosimo 'under a mountain of documents', that is, documents that already exist and should be made known for the benefit of all", he continues.

"I have always believed, in fact, that those who carry out investigations must have full knowledge of all the documents and not proceed according to pre-established theories. But this is not the case for everyone. If, for example, De Luca had made this effort, he would have avoided saying (in the hearing of 9 December 2025) that the proof of Dr. Borsellino's distrust towards me lay in the fact that on Saturday 18 July 1992 I was not among the colleagues to whom, in Palermo, he reported what he learned from the repentant Mutolo the day before", he continues.

"Reading the papers, he would have discovered that on 18 July 1992 I was in Rome at the Dia, together with my colleague Lo Forte, questioning Mutolo! Dr. De Luca will eventually respond to the competent authorities for many other anomalies in the investigation conducted against me", he concludes.