Mafia: Caselli, it was Ros who asked not to search Riina’s hideout

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(ANSA) – PALERMO, 12 AUGUST – The failed search of Riina’s hideout, immediately after his arrest on January 15, 1993, was requested by the leaders of the Ros to the Palermo prosecutor “in order to allow the development of covert investigations on the subjects which ensured protection to the boss “. The former Palermo prosecutor Giancarlo Caselli points out in a note, after the statements of Colonel Sergio De Caprio, known by the code name of “Capitano Ultimo”, the officer who arrested Riina, who yesterday had declared to ANSA that the decision not to search the villa “was taken by the prosecutor, certainly not by the carabinieri”.
“I point out that in a memorial published by the newspaper” Il Riformista “on October 26, 2021, signed by General Mario Mori, commander of the Ros at the time – writes Caselli -, we read that the decision not to search immediately had been proposed by captain Sergio de Caprio and supported by him.
This in order to allow the development of covered investigations on the subjects who ensured protection to Riina. As was already stated in an official Ros document addressed at the time of the events to the Palermo prosecutor’s office, in which it was explained that the postponement of the search was necessary to avoid any immediate or in any case hasty intervention and not to jeopardize further acquisitions that had to allow to break up the economic and operational structure headed by Riina “.
The statements of “Ultimo” were linked to the motivation of the sentence concerning the trial on the so-called negotiation, in which the judges of the Assize Court of Appeal write that the ROS officers, all acquitted, with the failure to search the Riina home intended send a “signal of readiness” to dialogue to the moderate non-massacre component of Cosa Nostra. (HANDLE).

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