“There is no possibility of thinking that Arnaldo Barbera, with his long experience, had not had all evidence canceled to prevent his career from being significantly compromised”. The lawyer Giuseppe Seminara said this during the speech at the trial on the misdirection of the investigations into the Via D’Amelio massacre. The lawyer defends two of the three policemen who worked on the Palermo Flying Squad with the super policeman Arnaldo La Barbera who – according to the prosecution – would have sidetracked the investigations by inducing the false collaborator of justice Vincenzo Scarantino to accuse people who would not have participated in the enforcement phase and planning of the massacre of 19 July 1992 in which judge Paolo Borsellino and the escort agents lost their lives. “For Mattei’s position there are elements that do not lead to the guilt of the accused”, said the defender. The lawyer focused on the external instigators of the Via D’Amelio massacre, from the presence of a person unrelated to Cosa Nostra inside the garage where the Fiat 126 was stuffed with TNT, to the red agenda. “The disappearance of Borsellino’s red agenda is an interesting topic. Is the interest in having the red agenda compatible with carrying out the massacre? On the red agenda – he added – how many elements did we have? Have elements of criticality to an already contradictory situation. We hypothesize that there was a correspondence of interests of subjects participating in the criminal activity”.
