Matteo Messina Denaro was sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1992 massacres of Capaci and Via D’Amelio, where Giovanni Falcone, Paolo Borsellino and the agents of their escorts were killed. The sentence of the Court of Assizes of Caltanissetta, chaired by Roberta Serio, comes after 14 hours in the council chamber. The fugitive boss of the Trapani mafia, wanted since 1993, was among the leaders of the Cosa Nostra massacre line imposed by the Corleonesi of Tot Riina. the third trial held in Caltanissetta for the Capaci massacre and the fifth for the Via D’Amelio massacre, where mafia leaders and material perpetrators of the attacks were sentenced.
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The indictment
Messina Denaro would have determined within the Cosa Nostra – according to the accusation, supported in the courtroom by the deputy prosecutor Gabriele Paci – a climate of unanimity without which the Corleonese mafia boss Tot Riina would not have been able to carry out his massacre plans, if not to risk of a mafia war. During the indictment, the magistrate, who requested a life sentence, explained that the role of Messina Denaro was decisive for the line followed by the mafia at the time: It is not sustainable that Tot Riina would have taken that path anyway without having the consent of Cosa Nostra. , because if there had been the dissent of the leaders of one of the provinces there would have been a war.
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