
November 29, 2009.
The Court of Assizes of the Court of Appeal of Messina, headed for the occasion by the court Antontio Brigandì, after five days of deliberation pronounces the sentence of the second degree of mammoth process Mare Nostrum, probably the most important prosecution of the Mafia ever celebratio peloritana in the province, which ended in the first instance on July 26, 2006 with a ruling which inflicted 28 life terms and 1,650 years in prison for a total 133 defendants.
The procedure had been opened after a big blitz investigation launched in the mid 90s. Association of the mafia, drug trafficking, murder, assault, weapons trafficking, extortion, injuries and much, much disputed among the charges the suspects.
Before we see what was the end but a step backwards.
First it should be noted that this resulted in the deletion process was called Mare Nostrum Drugs, a procedure concerning the drug trafficking in the area of \u200b\u200bBarcellona Pozzo di Gotto and he saw the involvement of 20 defendants.
The first phase of the case had acquitted six of the accused and ordered the remaining 14 defendants to terms ranging from 15 to 4 years in prison.
Attorney General Ernesto Morici on appeal had requested confirmation of all convictions, even for the 6 defendants acquitted in the first round of the process, founding largely on statements made by Maurizio Bonaceto sorry.
The ruling of the Court of Appeal presided over by Maria Pia Lazzara arrived on 13 November, confirming the acquittals already issued in first grade and reversing all convictions. The 14 defendants identified as culprits in the first stage of the proceedings in the Court did not commit crimes.
is thus contradicted the anti-criminal operation registratasi biggest ever in the province of Messina, a blitz that was supposed to have struck at the heart of Long criminal organizations, dismantle its operating system to retailers because of threats, killings, drugs.
In other words: drug trafficking, delinquency, in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, do not exist (like the mafia on the other hand ...).
The amount of information and links related to dirty acquitted is so huge that Nor would you want to rebuild it.
A has not committed because there is such Salvatore Ofria, very well known to the police, the waste of the Mafia boss plupregiudicato Tyrrhenian or missing Ugo, affiliated to the clan Barcelona, \u200b\u200bsentenced to nine years in first grade and cousin Attilio Manca, 34 year-old urologist found dead at his home in suspicious circumstances on February 13 2004. According to some reconstructions would
was he to work in a clinic for prostate Aubagne, France, the boss Bernardo Provenzano, in October 2003. A few months after a lethal cocktail of heroin and tranquilizers if they would be taken away. In his apartment here is the appearance of the footprints of his cousin, Hugh Manca, now free again for not having committed the crime.
Di Giulio and Mario Calderone, they also convicted at first instance and then acquitted, and their connections to the upper floors of the institutions of Barcelona (the court case and the Mayor of Barcelona Candeloro Nania among others) have already written a few months back, Massimo Beneduce, Umberto Beneduce, Salvatore Bianco, Salvatore Costa, Filippo Minolfi, Francesco Minolfi, Benedict Mondello, Armando Gangemi, Andrea Cattafi, Dominic Longo, Valentino Rotella, Louis Alberti, Antonino Barresi, Luigi Leto, Domenico Rotella Ofria and Rosario are the others acquitted all model citizens, of course, as you can see doing a quick internet search of their first and last names side by side alla parola “Mafia”.
Torniamo però alla parte più importante del processo, al Mare Nostrum vero e proprio, un procedimento che è interessante ripercorrere almeno in alcune sue parti salienti, assolutamente inedite, credo, nella storia della giustizia italiana.
Il 9 marzo del 2009 l’avvocato Francesco Bertolone, difensore del boss Giuseppe Gullotti, legge in aula un documento anonimo che mette in dubbio l’attendibilità delle dichiarazioni del pentito Maurizio Bonaceto, il quale avrebbe in pratica mentito accusando Giuseppe Gullotti ed Antonino Merlino di aver ucciso il giornalista Beppe Alfano.
Nel documento vengono espressi giudizi molto pesanti in merito a Piero Campagna, (carabiniere and brother of Graziella Campagna, killed by the Mafia in 1985 to seventeen years) and Fabio Repici, Plaintiffs' counsel in the process Mare Nostrum and numerous Mafia trials in the province of Messina (also including those relating to the murders Alfano and Country).

According to the document the two were aware of the innocence of Gullotti and Merlin, but they would never informed the Judicial Authority.
looks like a legal thriller. Unfortunately it is not, and indeed, before going ahead we must underline some important points.
1) serves first point out that nine of the proceedings pending medical reports had confirmed the impossibility to call to testify the repentant Maurizio Bonaceto, launch from the balcony of his house in 1997 and since then severely debilitated. The Court preferred to listen to the tenth and the only contrary opinion, which stated the actual ability to make examination of Bonaceto.
coupling in the courts, obviously in precarious conditions, Bonaceto not wish to respond, confirming its previous statements.
The Court, having taken note of the blatant pressure from Bonaceto to retract his statements (the brother of the collaborator with justice still works as an accountant in a firm of demolition due to the boss Salvatore Ofria ...) decided to acquire anyway files.
2) Who is the lawyer Francesco Bertolone?
Dr. Bertolone, legal Peloritani of the most notorious mobsters, had not participated in the first instance of the Mare Nostrum, as achieved by the matters alleged against him by the collaborator with justice Giuseppe Chiofalo (formerly his client).
Chiofalo, multiple homicide and sentenced to several life terms, had accused Bertolone to be a key confidant of the mob in Barcelona because of its relationship of deep friendship with Judge Frank Cassata, now Attorney General at the Court of Appeals for the Court to Messina.
Thus it is interesting to report, showing the relationship between the various Cassata-Bertolone, Chiofalo revealed an episode of the same in 2004 and never denied by the protagonists.
In 1974 Giuseppe Chiofalo, to Milan on board a Mercedes he owned, was home in his car to his lawyer at the time, Francis Bertolone, and a young judge, later revealed to be the current Attorney General at the Court 's Court of Appeal of Messina, Antonio Franco Cassata.
Another note of interest about the character emerges Bertolone then reread the anonymous document produced during the procedure Mare Nostrum and whose knowledge has been given a few paragraphs ago. The unidentified editor, omitted in the reading classroom observation data from Bertolone, you let it go a comment explaining that "Franco is Franco Bertolone Cassata lawyers."
Maybe because of that vaguest relationship between case and that it Bertolone, conscientiously deserted after the first phase of the trial for the apparent conflict within the legal proceedings relating to himself, will return to the classroom for the appeal process to be celebrated in that Court of Messina, whose faithful friend Cassata has now become Procutore General?
Judge for yourself ....
3) Who is the anonymous author of the document read in court by Francis Bertolone disqualification and the declarations of repentance Bonaceto Mauritius, tries to exonerate Gullotti the boss for the murder accusation and attack the lawyer Fabio Alfano Repici and the policeman Piero campaign, delivering also a completely new and unique view of the crime Alfano? His name is Olindo
Channels.

Deputy Public Prosecutor in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto since 1992, currently awaiting to be transferred from the office of the Superior Council of Magistracy to environmental compatibility and functional, the examining magistrate Alfano murder, prosecutor in the first instance of the process Mare Nostrum, a role which was removed in 2005 because of his visits with insistent Salvatore Rugolo, member of the gang Barcelona, Rugolo boss's son Francis (considered the undisputed head of the Mafia Tyrrhenian when he was killed in 1987 during the war between the gangs and chiofaliane of Barcelona) and also the brother of Venera Rugolo, wife of the famous Mafia boss Giuseppe Gullotti, which would Salvatore Rugolo still the main contact for the business of crime.
Another interesting detail that emerged from disclosure of the police officers drafted in 2005, the famous Tsunami information, which is one of the frequent visits of high-ranking Rugolo there is also that of Antonio Franco Cassano, Chief Public Prosecutor at the Court of Appeal of the Court of Messina .
Still, it must be emphasized that it was thanks to the judge if Joseph Olindo Channels Gullotti, accusato dell’omicidio del giornalista Beppe Alfano, venne condannato a 30 anni invece che all’ergastolo; Canali “dimenticò” infatti di considerare, nel corso dell’istruttoria, “la premeditazione” dell’omicidio, che evidentemente, o almeno secondo l’interpretazione che ne diede il giudice Canali, non fu pianificato.
Si tratta di un particolare inquietante, soprattutto se affiancato al documento, prima anonimo, poi riconosciuto, prodotto dal magistrato lombardo nell’ambito del processo Mare Nostrum, un memoriale evidentemente mirato a scagionare dalle accuse proprio il boss Gullotti.
E’opportuno rammentare che dopo il riconoscimento della authorship of the document operated by Channel Gullotti's lawyers will call to testify the same channel in the process Mare Nostrum.
The Court, disregarding the incompatibility laid down in Article 197 d of the Code of Criminal Procedure, will accept the deposition of the channel, as a result of the statements made in court is now under investigation by the prosecutor in Reggio Calabria for perjury and abetting the boss Giuseppe Gullotti.
Too bad his speech, undermining the credibility of statements of regret Bonaceto Mauritius, it is nevertheless crucial result in the procedure.
course is also to wonder why, while Olindo Canali waiting for a transfer of an office by the CSM and under investigation in Reggio Calabria with very serious charges, Mr Antonio Franco Cassano, whose painting of mafia collusion proved by the same documentation that led to the removal of the channels is much heavier, both now been chosen from that same MSM who transfer channels, as the new Attorney General at the Court of Appeal of the Court of Messina ........
Mystery.
But back to the process, and at the end of our history.
November 29, 2009.
The Court of Assizes of the Court of Appeal of Messina, headed for the occasion by the court Antontio Brigandì, after five days of deliberation pronounces the sentence of the second degree of mammoth process Mare Nostrum, probably the most important prosecution of the Mafia ever celebratio peloritana in the province, which ended in the first instance on July 26, 2006 with a ruling which inflicted 28 life terms and 1,650 years in prison for a total 133 defendants. The sentences are confirmed
41, 40 remission of sentence, 13 prescriptions, as many as 31 complete acquittals. Most
adversarial system which to prosecute the Mafia in the province of Messina is literally dismantled.
That is, in the capital peloritano there is no crime, the mafia from us there is an invention of some imaginative policeman, di alcuni magistrati in cerca di pubblicità.
Dei 28 ergastoli sentenziati in primo grado ne restano 14, il carcere a vita viene cancellato per Domenico Leone, Gaetano Fontanini, Francesco Franzese, Domenico Spica ed ovviamente per il boss Giuseppe Gullotti, accusato di essere il mandante del duplice omicido Iannello-Benvenga.
Grazie a questa sentenza Gullotti, uno dei capimafia più feroci nella storia della malavita messinese, potrebbe già pensare al momento del suo rilascio. In fondo adesso su di lui grava “soltanto” la condanna a 30 anni per l’omicidio Alfano.
Per Gaetano Fontanini e Francesco Franzese la Corte ha disposto la scarcerazione immediata.
Fontanini fu arrestato, latitante, in provincia di Catania in June 2007 during a massive blitz against drugs. At the time of detention were found in his home several guns, two pounds of marijuana and almost half a kilo of heroin.

shudder, but not the judges of the Court of Appeal of Messina, who clearly do not feel the same way. Fontanini
Franzese and today are free, recipients of a measure of immediate release from the Court worthy of Messina, pace of quaestor Caruso, of all the policemen who have risked their lives to capture them, of all the prosecutors that they had asked for life imprisonment and especially with our pace, evidently we must resign ourselves to this state of things.
Also because, moreover, you know, the Mafia does not exist.