He compares himself to the children of Gaza and defines his father as a man who fought the system, arrested because he "bothered" the powerful .
Giuseppe Salvatore Riina, known as Salvuccio, son of the mafia boss Totò , speaks out again. Unlike his father, he loves the spotlight and is no stranger to provocations, outright rewritings of history, and statements aimed at mythologizing the figure of the bloodthirsty mafia boss.
Riina, who was sentenced to eight years for mafia crimes and later returned to his hometown, gave an interview to the Lo Sperone Podcast.
"Like the little Palestinians, as a child I always lived as if I were in a constant state of emergency," he said. "But when we had to flee from one shelter to another with my dad, it was like a celebration for me because I got to know new places and new people. I was even born in the Noto clinic, the most famous in Palermo, with my father's name and surname. And everyone knew it."
Salvuccio Riina rewrites history: «My father never ordered the murder of little Giuseppe Di Matteo». Giovanni Falcone? «When they killed him, he was no longer a bother to the mafia or Totò Riina, but to others behind the scenes» .
An attack on the anti-mafia movement, "a bandwagon made up of people who need to be in the spotlight and this is demonstrated by the cases of judge Silvana Saguto and the entrepreneur Antonello Montante, fake and anti-mafia in appearance".
The portrait of his father is similar to that of a saint: "A man with a capital M, who always fought the system. A serious and honest man, who kept his word and thought about his family. I never saw him commit an act of violence or come home with a gun in his hand and covered in blood."
Totò Riina «was arrested because he was a nuisance, just as at a certain point Bernardo Provenzano and Matteo Messina Denaro were a nuisance , because they were ill and in that state were no longer of use to those who truly held the mafia's money».
(Unioneonline/L)
