Ilda Boccassini is under investigation in Florence for false information to the prosecutor aggravated by the type of investigation in which the incriminating statements were made. The former deputy prosecutor, she is not accused of lying but of withholding what she knows. According to the Florentine prosecutors, she knows the name of a source that was given to her during a […]
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Ilda Boccassini is under investigation Florence For false information to the prosecutor aggravated by the type of investigation in which the incriminating statements were made. The former deputy prosecutor, she is not accused of lying but of withholding what she knows. According to the Florentine prosecutors, she knows the name of a source that was given to her during an interview in 2011 by her friend, the great journalist Giuseppe D’Avanzo. The crime would have been committed when the former prosecutor was heard on 14 December 2021 by the prosecutors of Florence (together with those of Caltanissetta) as part of the ongoing investigations into the 1993 massacres.
That day Boccassini was asked to better clarify a passage from his book published a few months earlier by Feltrinelli: ‘Room number 30‘. In particular he had recounted a secret he had received from his friend Giuseppe D’Avanzoshortly before his death in 2011, on the source that in 1994 on the one hand had allowed a great scoop to D’Avanzo and his colleague Attilio Bolzoni Of The Republichowever burning on the other hand an investigation that aimed to reconstruct the declarations of the justice collaborator Salvatore Cancemi on the flows of money paid by the Berlusconi group to the mafia.
On 18 February 1994 Ilda Boccassini, a young prosecutor in Caltanissetta investigating the mafia massacres of 1992, questioned Cancemi, who recorded a confidence received from Riina in 1990-1991. The boss would have told him that with the mediation of Marcello Dell’Utri they arrived at Totò Riina 200 million a year in several installments “delivered I don’t know who to Pierino Di Napoli, regent of the Malaspina family”. We are one month away from the March 1994 elections that will hand Italy over to Berlusconi. Cancemi’s statements, regardless of the trial outcomes, were explosive at the time.
The Cassation of the Dell’Utri trial in 2014 will partially devalue those declarations de relato of Cancemi as “overall devoid of independent evidential significance”. In 1994, however, that was perhaps the most delicate and secret investigation underway in Italy. Immediately, as Ilda Boccassini recounts in her book, the Caltanissetta Prosecutor’s Office entrusted the investigations for the necessary checks to the Carabinieri. The men coordinated by the then captain Sergio DeCapriocalled Ultimo, followed the last link in the chain that carried the bribes, according to Cancemi, from Milan to Palermo: Pierino Di Napoli. On March 20 and 21, 1994 on Republic however, the journalists Bolzoni and D’Avanzo publish the contents of Cancemi’s report. The investigations burned out. Ilda Boccassini, a friend of Giuseppe D’Avanzo, tried several times over the years to force the Professional secret to understand the source. In the book the former prosecutor writes that only once D’Avanzo opened a breach in confidentiality: “Just a few days before his unexpected death (which occurred on July 30, 2011), to mine yet another solicitation”.
In D’Avanzo’s 2011 story reported in Boccassini’s 2021 book – as Giuseppe Pipitone he immediately noticed Daily fact – there were some useful elements to trace the identity of the source. In the book, however, the former prosecutor doesn’t say his name and chooses another path: she encourages the ‘source’ to come out on her own. This is the position of Ilda Boccassini on the point in the book: “No names, because Peppe is no longer with us and because his interlocutor knows me well. Maybe it would be important for everyone if he wanted to discuss the reasons that led him to act in that way”. The source therefore appears to be known to the former prosecutor but it does not appear that he has accepted the invitation to discuss the reasons for the ‘tip-off’ one week before the elections, one month after the start of the investigations. The Florence prosecutors summoned Ilda Boccassini on December 14, 2021 to ask her who D’Avanzo’s ‘source’ that he revealed to her was. The former prosecutor, according to the deputy prosecutors Luca Turco And Luca Tescaroli “he kept quiet what he knew around the facts on which it was heard”. To be precise “did not provide the name of the source who had informed the journalist Giuseppe D’Avanzo, according to the story that the latter had given her in a private conversation”. Ilda Boccassini received the notice of conclusion of the investigations where the former colleagues contest “article 371 bis paragraph 1 in relation to article 384 ter of the penal code”. You now have twenty days to speak to your lawyer to avoid the request for indictment.
