Mafia boss behind 150 killings Giovanni Brusca released from jail
03 June, 2021
A mafia boss nicknamed "the Pig" who killed a renowned prosecutor and dissolved a boy's body in acid was released from jail on Mon, sparking outrage across Italy.
Giovanni Brusca, 64, still left Rome's Rebibbia prison after a 25-year sentence, during which he became a state witness. He will right now serve four years of probation.
"Brusca freed - the cruellest boss," reading La Repubblica daily.
His let go was condemned by politicians and family members of his victims, although others defended it given his co-operation with the authorities.
In 1992, Brusca detonated the bomb that killed Giovanni Falcone, Italy's legendary prosecuting magistrate who dedicated his career to overthrowing the mafia.
Mr Falcone's wife and three bodyguards were as well killed in the attack after their car drove over a portion of motorway packed with 400 kilograms of explosives outside Palermo.
The bomb was detonated by Brusca not far from.
Tina Montinaro, the wife of 1 of the bodyguards killed, told Repubblica she was "indignant" at Brusca's discharge.
"The express is against us," Ms Montinaro said. "After 29 years we still have no idea the reality about the massacre and Giovanni Brusca, the person who destroyed my children, is free."
He was probably the most loyal operators of the head of Cosa Nostra, Salvatore Toto Riina, "the Beast" who died behind pubs in 2017.
Arrested in 1996, Brusca decided to co-run with the authorities, admitting to a huge selection of murders, Italian media reported.
One of the most grisly was that of Giuseppe Di Matteo, 12, the son of a good mafia turncoat, who was kidnapped in 1993 found in retaliation for his daddy having collaborated with authorities.
After being in a house for a lot more than two years in squalid conditions, the boy was strangled and his body thrown into acid in what police have called "one of the most heinous crimes in the history of the Cosa Nostra".
"The law can't be the same for these folks," the boy's father, Santino Di Matteo, told the Corriere della Sera newspaper.
"Brusca will not deserve anything. These persons aren't human."
Mr Di Matteo recalled how Brusca "as well killed a 23-year-old pregnant female" who had nothing in connection with the mafia, "after torturing her boyfriend".
He said he hoped he'd never match him on the road.
"I don't know very well what might happen," said Mr Di Matteo, who even now lives in a secret location for concern with mafia retribution.
There were also protests from both sides of Italy's political divide.
The first choice of the centre-kept Democratic Party, Enrico Letta, called the news headlines a "punch in the stomach that leaves one speechless".
Far-proper leader Matteo Salvini called Brusca a "crazy beast" who "cannot get out of prison".
But Pietro Grasso, a leftist politician and former Senate president who was simply once on the killer's hit-list, saw "no scandal".
Mr Grasso was a good magistrate and Italy's chief anti-mafia prosecutor before switching to politics found in 2013.
He said he had little sympathy for Brusca, especially following the assassin and his aides plotted to kill him and kidnap his child.
But Mr Grasso said it was to offer jail-term reductions to mobsters who turned talk about informants.
"The indignation of many politicians who understand very little about the penal code and the fight the mafia scares me personally," he wrote on Facebook.
"We are looking for heavy jail term reductions for many who help the express, and the chance of life imprisonment, without reductions, for many who usually do not co-operate."
Source: www.thenationalnews.com
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