Via D'Amelio: Caltanissetta investigating judge orders new investigations into American mafia involvement
October 21, 2023
The investigating judge of the Caltanissetta court has ordered new investigations into the massacre in Via D'Amelio , in which judge Paolo Borsellino and the escort officers Emanuela Loi , Vincenzo Li Muli , Claudio Traina , Agostino Catalano and Walter Eddie Cosina lost their lives . In an order, the investigating judge Santi Bologna asked the Nissena prosecutor's office to continue investigations for a period of six months regarding the possible involvement of the American mafia in the Cosa Nostra massacre strategy of 1992. The investigating judge ordered new investigations after the request of dismissal by the Caltanissetta prosecutor's office against Maurizio Avola , ruthless killer from Catania and collaborator of justice (who left the protection program).
The investigating judge accepted most of the requests made by the lawyer Ugo Colonna in the interests of Avola, the same one who years later, speaking with the magistrates of Caltanissetta, said he was present on the day of the massacre in Via d'Amelio and having met Judge Borsellino's gaze before the Fiat 126 exploded. Reconstruction of the facts deemed unreliable by the Caltanissetta prosecutor's office who had investigated him for slander . The investigating judge writes, among other things, that so far the "judicial reconstructions carried out" have not "been able to fully reconstruct the phase of the padding and placement of the Fiat 126 on the site of the explosion, nor the identity of all the subjects of the commando who acted in via D'Amelio, nor who actually had to activate the detonation device of the bomb (and from where)".