Massacres of '92: the investigation into the mafia-procurement dossier closed

The line is still open

The Nissena prosecutor's office itself requested the dismissal last April. However, the tranche of investigation for aiding and abetting aggravated by having aided the mafia (prescribed crime) which sees former magistrates Giuseppe Pignatone and Gioacchino Natoli under investigation remains open. Natoli also responds to slander. According to the investigators, they covered up the so-called mafia-procurement dossier, thus favoring the mafia entrepreneurs. In this context, the attack on Judge Paolo Borsellino would have taken place, to be eliminated, according to this hypothesis, out of fear that he could deepen the investigations into the infiltration of Cosa Nostra into large contracts.

"The analysis carried out, while highlighting the hostile and marginalizing climate in which doctors Falcone and Borsellino found themselves operating within the Palermo Prosecutor's Office in the two-year period 1990-1992 and while highlighting the sidereal distance existing between their professional capacity and that of many other magistrates of their contemporaries, who found themselves operating in relation to proceedings which touched on one of the topics of greatest interest for Falcone and Borsellino themselves (the report between Cosa Nostra and the public procurement system) did not allow the identification of any independently persuasive piece of evidence that could lead to the identification of specific subjects among the magistrates or among the exponents of the political-business world linked to them who could be registered as moral (and even more material) competitors in relation to the two massacres". It is one of the passages of the decree with which the investigating judge of Caltanissetta Santi Bologna closed the proceedings against unknown persons who saw the investigation into the infiltration of Cosa Nostra in large contracts as the motive for the 1992 attacks which cost the lives of magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino and their escorts. "Conclusively, for all the reasons reviewed so far, the elements acquired do not allow us to formulate any reasonable prediction of conviction", concludes the investigating judge after having examined the request for dismissal formulated by the Nissena Prosecutor's Office itself.