They are rebuilding the contributions of Trapani to the rise of Totò Riina within the Cosa Nostra.

In the indictment, the assistant prosecutor also reconstructed the balance within the Trapani mafia and its importance in Cosa Nostra. " The province of Trapani is fundamental for history and for the present of Cosa Nostra, also for the connections with the American mafia: after Corleone, it was Riina's house "."In the southern area both Riina and Provenzano had purchased a lot of land and this was historically their area of ​​reference, so much so that from Trapani in the seventies the assault on the old families of the eighties started, to result in the murder of Stefano Bontade in 1981. In those years, in Trapani - he added - the Rimi in Alcamo, the Minore in Trapani and the Buccellato in Castellammare del Golfo, all connected with Gaetano Badalamenti of Cinisi, all swept away by Riina who - having won the war - led the 'traitors'. "In court the prosecution brought then those who were different rotations at the top of the Trapani family, highlighting the discrepancy between the actual role of Mariano Agate and one described by some collaborators of justice, as Vincenzo Calcara ." To make honor - he said - the mandate of Marsala was dissolved, giving life to that of Mazara del Vallo, headed by Agate, who however was not the leader of the Trapani mafia ". Role that for long decades was covered by Don Ciccio Messina Denaro , father of the current fugitive. " The passing of the baton between the 'zu Ciccio and his son is one of the topics of this trial", added Paci, citing the last murder in which father and son would have participated, dating back to 1989." 'Castelvetrano and Mazara del Vallo were like San Giuseppe Jato and Corleone' ", said Giovanni Brusca in the courtroom when he was heard on 12 December 2017. " Trapani - explained Paci - at that moment is a land of fugitives; many of these are from Palermo, such as the Corleonesi from Riina. In Ninety-two the fugitive number one was Totò Minore (head of the Trapani mafia, editor's note ) , who was one of the first to die in the war of the 1980s, but he was still being sought in the 1990s . "Only years later was it known that Minore had been killed in 1983.