An institutional relationship that never bordered on the personal: “I had a sort of awe towards the prosecutor Borsellino, because he had a smile that evoked my father’s“. He confesses it to ANSA Rino Germanà, 70 years old, former police commissioner of Piacenza and Forlì and in the years of the massacres Commissioner of Police in Mazara del Vallo. A few days after the thirtieth anniversary of the explosion in via D’Amelio, the policeman speaks who, 57 days after Borsellino’s death, miraculously escaped an attack on the Tonnarella seafront, remaining alive after diving into the water.
“My first memory of Paolo Borsellino dates back to his establishment in Marsala, on 4 August 1986 – says Germanà – over the years we have always worked in close relationship. He noticed my timid entries into the office and, with a hint of a smile, said to me: Sit down. It was at that moment that I discovered the human side of the prosecutor. “
Difficult years of fighting the mafia, the investigations in the Trapani area and the arrests: “We did our job but not everyone liked this – emphasizes Germanà – what I think is that the mafia had it with Borsellino as it had with Falcone, because he saw them as enemies. In mafia crime there are very refined minds, the same ones that exist even outside the mafia “.
The former commissioner, now retired, remembers Borsellino’s farewell greeting in Marsala on 4 July 1992: “We all met in the courtroom (now the seat of municipal offices, ed) and it was a truly exciting moment. , together with other close collaborators, then we accompanied him to the entrance on the ground floor and along the corridor, for the first time, he addressed me in a confidential tone: Rino, get ready to come and work with me in Palermo. : ‘yes, okay Mr. Prosecutor’ and asked no questions “. There was no time for a new collaboration in Palermo between the prosecutor and the Commissioner.
“When I learned of the massacre, on July 19, 1992, I was dismayed. The first images I saw on TV impressed me – says Rino Germanà – in the words of Sciascia, even the devil is impressed by the things that the mafioso does. Who thinks of death he never feels it near. And this is a factor in favor of the mafia who move with the surprise factor and, when you least expect it, it arrives “, concludes Germanà.
Source: Ansa
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