Gladio had links to the underworld all over Europe and Turkey.
Mafia, massacres and 007: "The armed Falange as a dowry to Totò Riina" by Alessia Candito Totò Riina The new revelations of the repentant to the public prosecutor of Reggio on the attacks of '92 -93 03 DECEMBER 2021 2 MINUTES OF READING New repentants. New acts. New documents. And a new scheme that places the history of the Sicilian and continental massacres in a broader context and with a new player on the board. It is Gladio, or rather its most secret nucleus, Falange Armata.
Until now it was considered only the mysterious symbol used from the nineties onwards to sign murders and attacks, more recently returned to order the superboss Totò Riina, who was talking too much, "shut the damn mouth". Instead, reveals the anti-mafia prosecutor of Reggio Calabria directed by Giovanni Bombardieri, it is - or at least it was - a Gladio structure that received selected elements of the services and that for decades with the mafia has shed blood and forfeited money, trying to bend the history of the country.
It is all written and documented in an information that "Repubblica" has had the opportunity to read, filed in the proceedings of the investigation by the deputy prosecutor Giuseppe Lombardo, "'Ndrangheta massacre". The one that in the first degree cost the seventh life sentence to the boss of Brancaccio, Giuseppe Graviano, and the first to the most holy Calabrian mammasantissima, Rocco Santo Filippone. The one that for the first time showed that the 'Ndrangheta had a role and killed in the season of the continental attacks. An investigative trace that fights in Reggio Calabria, as in Florence, Caltanissetta and Palermo, the prosecutors who still work on the massacres, those who carried out them, those who covered them. And now they have new material. Starting from the declarations of repentants such as Vittorio Foschini, who revealed how the prison educator Umberto Mormile, the first victim of the Falange, was killed in the 1990s because he had discovered the relationship between the superboss of 'Ndrangheta Domenico Papalia and the services "who, giving the authorization to the murder, recommended to claim him with an initials terrorist that they themselves pointed out ". Or those of collaborator Antonio Schettini, who explains how the kidnapping season ended, during which "the kidnappers took 500, the other 500 these apparatuses", Falange Armata was born "to compensate for this lack of income". But behind, he warns "there is a whole series of pieces of the state that move because of this acronym, so we have grants, funding, we have the establishment of new working groups, new sectors to channel".
And Falange Armata - says Filippo Malvagna - becomes an inheritance that arrives in the hands of Totò Riina, who in Enna orders to use it "to make a little confusion" because "it was not necessary to understand where all this earthquake came from". The assassination of Salvo Lima, that of Giuliano Guazzelli, the massacre of Capaci, just to name a few. A hinge signature, like some figures, able to sew the world of Gladio and those of the mafias. Like General Francesco Delfino, "brother of one of the three brains of the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria", says the former repentant Annunziatino Romeo, but above all a man of clans and services. "A recruiter" specifies another repentant, Giacomo Ubaldo Lauro, who tells how the Calabrian clans came from
The same general who on January 8, 1993 arrested Balduccio Di Maggio, Totò Riina's driver, and made him speak, from whom he snatched the information necessary to arrive at the arrest of the boss a week later. At least officially. But there are the carabinieri of Palermo, who tell how Delfino never allowed them to speak with Di Maggio. And the repentant Tullio Canella, according to whom Riina was "sold" to the carabinieri by Bernardo Provenzano, "who had relations with them" and Delfino was "the contact man between the Cosa Nostra and the services". Patterns and characters that are repeated from North to South and today - it is the new investigative track - offer an unprecedented and unitary interpretation.
