Totò Riina's son, Giovanni, arrested in 1996 and in hard prison since 2002, had his appeal against the Ministry of Justice's extension of Article 41 bis in November 2023 accepted by the Court of Cassation, with referral .
Now the judges, examining the prisoner's appeal, have deemed "merely apparent" the motivation of the Surveillance Court of Rome which last June had deemed the provision correct.
"I will ask for the papers on Giovanni Riina, son of the undisputed boss of Cosa Nostra. The criminal history of this man knows no dissociations and his surname alone still inspires fear and a sort of dangerous and aberrant fascination. We will put the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission in defense of 41bis ", announced the president of the Anti-Mafia Commission, Chiara Colosimo .
Andrea Delmastro delle Vedove , deputy of Fratelli d'Italia and undersecretary of Justice , also spoke on the decision in the evening. "Despite the respect due to the Supreme Court, we will insist on the request to apply the harsh prison regime to Giovanni Riina. The clear and current mafia dangerousness of Giovanni Riina does not allow us to lower our guard. To face the reasonings not shared by the Supreme Court, we will present all the elements collected by the investigators regarding the role played by Riina in the association and the current dangerousness of himself and the gang", said Delmastro.
On the same line is the deputy and head of organization of Fratelli d'Italia, Giovanni Donzelli . «41 bis - he underlined - is a fundamental tool to dismantle the power of the mafia in the management of criminal trafficking on the territory. We will read the reasons, but as long as Fratelli d'Italia is in government the fight against the mafia will be an absolute priority and the defense of 41 bis will remain an indisputable pillar ».
Giuseppe Antoci, a member of the MEP from Messina for the Five Star Movement , also intervened immediately on the case. « Due to a defect of form , due to an argumentative path not adequately rich carried out by the judges of merit - he observed - a leading exponent of Cosa Nostra is allowed to re-establish contacts with the outside world . It cannot be expected that a situation of clear mafia-relatedness can be argued in terms that are different each time, nor can it be stated that the actuality of the danger represented by the mafia bosses must be reconsidered each time in the motivation, without being deduced from the same membership in the mafia, from which one has never dissociated oneself».
(Online Union)