Cosa Nostra killer who dissolved child in acid freed after 26 years behind bars

Gaspare Spatuzzothe material author attacks on Cosa Nostra from 1992 and 1993, the killer of the child who was dissolved in acid and that after several life sentences he cooperated with the judiciary by revealing the secrets of the Sicilian mafia, he was released today after 26 years of his sentence.

Spatuzza, 58, will be able to enjoy complete freedom, without the restrictions of house arrest he has been subject to since 2014 for the benefit of his judicial cooperation, although he must respect some rules, such as the prohibition of entering into relations with people with criminal records and not leaving the place of residence without authorization , as the newspaper exclusively revealed today Corriere della Sera.

This ends his life sentence for the bombs that exploded in Rome, Florence and Milan in the summer of 1993 and caused ten deaths and more than fifty injuries.

Also for the murder of father Pino Puglisi, killed on September 15, 1993, and a sentence of 12 years in prison for the kidnapping of a 12-year-old boy, the son of a penitent santino di matteowho was held for more than two years and later killed and dissolved in acid by the jailers, in one of the most cruel sites of Cosa Nostra.

Known as “‘u tignus” (the bald) he inherited the leadership The Brancaccio clan of Palermo on the recommendation of Cosa Nostra leaders, including the then “boss of bosses”, Matteo Messina Denarorecently arrested after 30 years on the run.

Arrested in July 1997, Spatuzza spent eleven years in solitary confinement, until 2008 when he decided to talk to the judges and admitted that he was one of the perpetrators of the attacks for which he was already convicted, but also that he participated in them. who ended her life with anti-mafia judges Giovani Falcone and Paolo Borsellinohis wife and five companions in 1992. As an associate of Justice, he pointed out Messina Denara as the organizer of attacks on judges.

Some of his statements in the more than 15 trials in which he testified were highly controversial, such as when he accused Silvio Berlusconi and his right-hand man Marcello Dell’Utri of maintaining deals with the Graviano brothers, heads of one of the most powerful families in the Sicilian mafia, in birth time of Forza Italia.

According to his defender Spatuzza, who will turn 59 in a month, in addition to “repentance” he also experienced religious conversion which led him to carry out “acts of reparation and social solidarity, such as seeking forgiveness from victims, volunteer work or a call for cooperation addressed to all gangsters”.