A video screened in the Senate on
Wednesday showed anti-mafia prosecutor Paolo Borsellino, killed
like his friedn and colleague Giovanni Falcone by a mafia bomb
in 1992, asking what sense having a police escort only in the
morning had.
The assassination of Borsellino has recently been brought
back to the public spotlight.
"What sense does it have to be accompanied in the morning to
then be free to be assassinated in the evening," Borsellino had
asked the anti-mafia commission, complaining that he only had a
police escort in the morning due to a lack of drivers.
"We need them the entire day," he said.
The commission has meanwhile decided unanimously to remove
the state secret confidentiality of deeds up until 2001 and to
digitise all the materials.
Two magistrates who worked in the Palermo anti-mafia pool
were placed under investigation in June in a probe into
suspected cover-ups regarding Borsellino's assassination.
Carmelo Petralia and Annamaria Palma, who worked on the
bombing, have been placed under investigation with possible
charges of complicity in aggravated calumny and having favoured
Cosa Nostra.
Borsellino was murdered on July 19, 1992, two months after
Falcone.
The two crusading magistrates were instrumental in the
creation of the pool.
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