Ruoppolo Teleacras - Antimafia “Xydi” in Appello: proposte sette condanne

The Attorney General's Office's closing arguments at the second-degree ordinary trial in the anti-mafia investigation into the Agrigento "Xydi" case: 7 sentences proposed. 22 years for Giuseppe Falsone. Report by Angelo Ruoppolo. The Attorney General's Office has appealed before the Palermo Court of Appeal, presided over by Adriana Piras, for a 22-year prison sentence for the former head of the Agrigento Cosa Nostra, Giuseppe Falsone, the "accountant." He will turn 56 on August 28th. He has been in prison since June 25, 2010, when he was discovered as a fugitive and arrested in Marseille, France. From prison, Falsone, from Campobello di Licata, allegedly regained control of the mafia through his defense attorney, Angela Porcello, now a former lawyer, from Canicattì. She allegedly conveyed his messages to other affiliates. Falsone, conversing with Porcello in prison, philosophizes about the origins of the Mafia and explains the need for social leadership to prevent the rise of banditry, which, in Falsone's words, "would be deadly." Giuseppe Falsone cites the example of the artichoke and the vine: "If you hoe an artichoke, you remove the artichoke, but 20 cardunas sprout. If you hoe a vine, 10 cuttings grow in its place." Other sentences were also invoked: 22 years of prison for Antonio Gallea, 68, from Canicattì, already sentenced to life for being one of the instigators of the murder of Judge Rosario Livatino. 28 years for Santo Gioacchino Rinallo, 66, from Canicattì, a lifer on semi-release, considered one of the most brutal killers of the Stidda. Antonino Chiazza, 56, the alleged new leader of the Stidda of Canicattì, received a 29-year sentence. Pietro Fazio, 53, of Canicattì, an alleged Stidda member, received an 18-year sentence. Stefano Saccomando, 48, of Palma di Montechiaro, was charged with aiding and abetting. An 8-year prison sentence was also proposed for Filippo Pitruzzella, 65, a retired police inspector, who is accused of external involvement with the mafia because he was allegedly a convenient "mole" for the lawyer Angela Porcello and her former mafia associate Giancarlo Buggea, a businessman from Canicattì. Pitruzzella has always maintained that he acted on behalf of the secret services to use Porcello as a means to capture Matteo Messina Denaro, who was also a defendant in the same "Xydi" investigation. If so, it would be a case similar to that of the former mayor of Castelvetrano, Antonino Vaccarino, who initiated an exchange of letters with Messina Denaro engineered by the secret services to arrest the super-fugitive.