“Those deaths don’t belong to us…”.

 

This is what Gaspare Spatuzza said during the appeal trial hearing against Marcello Dell’Utri. We consider them extremely important because they confirm the great enigma of the 1992 and 1993 slaughters that caused havoc amongst the State’s servants and destabilized a country already damaged by trials and the Tangentopoli investigations.

 

Gaspare Spatuzza, who has on his conscience

forty murders, feels the need to express his discomfort to his moral father, Giuseppe Graviano. And he does it showing all his weakness, unreliability, which make the people questioning him very suspicious. But he cannot help to say what he is saying.

 

Spatuzza knew what he was doing during the slaughters of Capaci and Via D’Amelio, he confessed he “cowardly” rejoiced at the result of the slaughters, but he does not feel involved in the slaughters in Georgofili road, Milan and Rome. But why?

This is a crucial question.

 

Giuseppe Graviano announced that now the Mafia can count on serious people that will give the Mafia and those who are in prison what they need. For those who are inside, the end of the 41 bis, for those who are outside, softer laws. “The country is our hands”, said Giuseppe Graviano to Gaspare Spatuzza, who did not understand.

So this is the point: if the country is in their hands, why do they have to kill the carabinieri in Rome? The fact that the new people of reference want to bring peace and can change the security of the country cannot be a strong enough reason. Unless you don’t “read” the episode of that period in a wider context, i.e. as the weak link in the Maastricht Europe, a country that can frighten other nations on the eve of the referendum to enter a new Europe and create a new economic body with a decisive role in the world panorama.

 

But this does not explain the alleged business relations between the Graviano family and the politicians from Milan or the discreet presence of Vittorio Mangano, the famous groom of Arcore and “hero” – according to Marcello Dell’Utri – for his silence when questioned by the magistrates (or when magistrates wanted him to say something in particular, it depends on the point of view) on him and on Silvio Berlusconi.

 

The appeal process against Marcello Dell’Utri showed how things are to those who had the patience and interest to know. With unsolved questions, clear vilenesses, unexplainable anomalies and absurd, but real people, a world closer than what we think.

 

 

Translated by Chiara Nunnari from John Milton Institute