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The Supreme Court confirmed the acquittal of former Minister Calogero Mannino, defended by Grazia Volo, in the extract of the process on the so-called State-Mafia negotiation. The supreme judges of the Sixth Criminal Section have declared inadmissible the appeal filed by the Palermo prosecutors against Mannino’s acquittal issued by the Palermo Court of Appeals on July 22, 2019. The former minister was accused of attacking the political body of the State. Even in the first instance, the former Christian Democratic politician was acquitted.
“The Court of Cassation, confirming the judgment of the Palermo Court of Appeals, has put an end to the exercises of imagination that the persecutory obsession of some prosecutors has put on paper since 1991 in several trials in which I have always been acquitted. rhetoric, but with the emotion of the moment, I must underline the importance and value of this sentence that reconfirmed the verdict of the first instance and the court of appeal, the latter presented in a monumental way for the precision, depth of all investigations and motivation “. Thus, former DC Minister Calogero Mannino comments on the Supreme Court ruling that confirmed his acquittal in the extract from the trial on the so-called State-Mafia negotiation. “My strangeness to the so-called State-Mafia negotiation is recognized – he continues – but above all it has reconstructed the long stage of my political life from 1979 to 1992, which was characterized by a commitment to fight crime and my total adherence to the line that the state was preparing to tackle the problem of the mafia ”. “Mannino – he adds – had to be assassinated because he had fought the mafia: this is the decisive step in the reconstruction made by the judgment of the appeal court. The resistance that the magistrates of the Public Ministry of Palermo opposed lacked coherence factual and even more unmotivated if not artificial and a pretext at the level of law. ” ed) and my feeling full of affection goes to Grazia Volo and her collaborator Cristiano Bianchini (both defense attorneys of Mannino ed) who were my angels in this long Via Crucis and they were also for my family, for my wife, my son and now for my grandchildren who can go with their heads held high through the political life of their grandfather. “
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