Palermo, trial of the 'escapees': Tommaso and Franco Inzerillo convicted in the appeal
AMTwo thousand November 14, 2023
With an abbreviated appeal sentence issued last November 9 by the Court presided over by Vittorio Anania , the judges inflicted a series of heavy sentences on the "escapees" who returned to Sicily and arrested in 2019, starting with the cousins ??Tommaso (16 years) and Franco Inzerillo (11 years and 4 months), boss of Passo di Rigano, together with eighteen other defendants.
Francesco Inzerillo , known as 'u truttaturi , had never been convicted of mafia charges until his new arrest: in 1988 he had been involved in the "Iron Tower" operation but then acquitted in 1999 of the crime of mafia association.
In '97 he was expelled from the United States and arrested upon his arrival in Rome. In 2006 he was sent back to prison in the “Gotha” blitz and was sentenced to ten and a half years, in the first and second degree.
The Court of Cassation subsequently annulled the verdict and it was necessary to hold a new trial at the end of which the judges wrote that "a certain dynamic interpenetration of Inzerillo in Cosa Nostra does not appear to be delineable, also given that from the observation services, they only highlighted sporadic meetings of the accused with those individuals, mostly his relatives, who directly became interested in the question of removal from Sicily".
Tommaso Inzerillo (known as Tamì ) already investigated in 1980 by the investigating judge Giovanni Falcone for criminal conspiracy aimed at exporting currency and dealing narcotic substances.
In October 2005 he was granted semi-liberty, but a year later he was back in prison. He was sentenced to 10 years, but avoided life imprisonment for the accusation of having lured his relatives Pietro and Antonio Inzerillo into a trap by the Corleonesi .
Tomasso, free in 2013, according to the new investigations and the story of justice collaborators, would have entrusted Buscemi with the task of participating in the meeting of the new dome convened in 2018.