The Palermo Public Prosecutor's Office is once again investigating the murder of the President of the Sicilian Region Piersanti Mattarella, who was murdered in front of his wife, Irma Chiazzese, on January 6, 1980, in front of his home in the center of Palermo . The magistrates, as reported by the newspaper la Repubblica, have identified the two killers, two men of honor. This is news that the investigators have not confirmed . A new chapter in a 45-year-long investigation that in recent months has led the Public Prosecutor's Office to request photographs taken at the crime scene from several newspapers, including ANSA.
The members of the Cosa Nostra Commission that planned the ambush against the brother of the President of the Republic were convicted for the Mattarella murder. While the material perpetrators remained nameless. The two accused fascists, Valerio Fioravanti and Gilberto Cavallini, were tried and definitively acquitted. In particular, Fioravanti had been identified as the possible killer by Mattarella's widow, but his testimony did not stand up to scrutiny by the judges. In the investigation, which has been shelved several times, a convergence of interests between the mafia and black subversion has always been hypothesized. This theory was also advanced by Giovanni Falcone.
Red herrings, dark plots, mafia, occult powers, black subversion: a case that has never been closed. Reopening it, in addition to the prosecutors, on the very anniversary of the ambush, is a documentary film by Giorgia Furlan ("Magma. Mattarella, the perfect crime"), a pressing investigation into what is described as the most serious crime after that of Aldo Moro . Mattarella was his protégé and his heir: in Sicily he had taken up his line of renewal of political life and of convinced openings towards the PCI. The documentary film - produced by Mauro Parissone for 42° Parallelo, Antonio Campo dell'Orto and Ferruccio De Bortoli - will be presented in Rome with a national preview on January 9, 2025 (cinema Moderno) and in Bologna with a special screening (cinema Modernissimo). Around the Mattarella case, the lines of a political project are recomposed that, already with Moro, had called into question the balances of the Cold War. And in addition, a government with "the right papers" had been created that had lifted the veil on the Sicilian system of connivance and convergence of interests between the mafia, occult powers and politics.
Mattarella himself was aware of the risks he was facing, as he confided to the head of his secretariat, Maria Trizzino, after a confidential conversation with Minister Virginio Rognoni. From that experience, many moral lessons and images of Piersanti Mattarella's political relations have come down to us, as well as the dramatic shots of Letizia Battaglia who by chance found herself filming her brother Sergio, the current head of state, while he was trying to help him.
(Online Union)