The Graviano, the misdirection and the strategies of the Cosa Nostra bosses
ARS ANTI-MAFIA COMMISSION November 11, 2021 • 06:30 Updated, November 10, 2021 • 12:10 pm Why call into question the Gravianos in this investigation into the misdirection of via D'Amelio? Because the fate of Totò Riina and his subversive strategy, much more complex than a simple mafia revenge, are intimately linked to that massacre. But there is more: the capture of Riina, what preceded him (the arrest of Balduccio Di Maggio) and the tips collected and sorted to those in charge.
29 years after the season of the massacres - Salvatore Riina and Bernardo Provenzano having died, held in prison at 41 bis, considered the organizers of the campaign on behalf of Cosa Nostra; Matteo Messina Denaro having been a fugitive for 25 years, the last representative of the “Corleonese era”, the brothers Filippo and Giuseppe Graviano have emerged for ten years as the main custodians of the secrets of that historical period.
Their story is quite unusual. Mentioned only marginally by the great repentants of the Eighties (Buscetta, Contorno, Marino Mannoia) we begin to talk about them towards the end of the century (for example Nino Giuffrè indicates them as notoriously linked to the Services) and for the revelations of Gaspare Spatuzza.
The Graviano, it turns out, belong to an ancient and very rich mafia family, and they control the Brancaccio district, known as the “industrial zone” of Palermo, where they have made important building investments. The head of the family Michele Graviano (owner, head of many economic activities of great value, from the trade of fruit and vegetables, to construction, to international exports, owner of share packages) was killed in 1982, at the beginning of the mafia war that he contrasts Bontade-Inzerillo with Riina and his Corleonesi.
