The story of Alfonso Sabella, today judge in the fourth criminal section of Rome, is as river as the hearing “monstre” (his copyright) from which he has just come out. Many know Sabella as the “mafia hunter”, because of the Soccer player, The TV series inspired by its history. “When we stop Giovanni Brusca, on May 20, 1996, we immediately understand that it could have some failure, we immediately put it under the protection of a special team of the prison police, in a section of the bird where he is only him. At five in the afternoon of May 23, 1996, the crypt phone that I have on the desk rings me, it is the general who manages Brusca: “Dr. commands, the child needs affection, commands”.
It is a code message: “At that moment I understand that Brusca wants to collaborate with justice”. Natural to wonder which thoughts passes: “The first thing I think is: if this gentleman wants to collaborate with justice I will have to meet him, I will have to tighten his hand. I remain for a time, which I remember interminable but maybe it was a few seconds, to reflect on this. The first phone call that I do is not to Gian Carlo Caselli who at that moment in Palermo is the prosecutor, but to Franco Lo you, (today head of the Rome prosecutor’s office nd.), The colleague who had done with me the investigation and who was a friend of Giovanni Falcone. I ask him: “What do we do?”. Pause, evidently he too thinks the same things. Then He replies: “What would Giovanni do in our place? He would go on. Let’s go on.” At that point I call Caselli and activate what is needed to start the collaboration of Brusca and interviews ».
There is almost no need for questions, the story flows by itself: “I am brusque for the first time on July 2, in a post office in a very confidential, very secret way, and on that occasion I have handed my hand. But I say this every time I go to schools: the Sabella man would never have tightened that hand, but the magistrate Sabella had to do it. The question I ask myself is: without the law on collaborators of justice wanted by Giovanni Falcone, how would we know that Brusca had pressed the Raci remote control?
This is what Fausto Cardella tells that era engaged in the investigation into the massacres in Caltanissetta to tell this point in another testimony of this dossier: “The magistrates of Caltanissetta”, continues Sabella, “would perhaps have probably reconstructed the massacre but without that certainty. The thing that everyone forgets is that the collaborators of justice have allowed us to know who Giovanni Brusca was, who was acquitted at the first instance at the Maxiprocess of Palermo. Because there was only the declaration of Tommaso Buscetta on him, who said his son Mezzano di Bernardo Brusca seems to be a cute petiole. Then came Francesco Marino Mannoia, on which the law was designed that also stuck Brusca, then sentenced in the second degree ».
For a long time, the ethics have been discussed: “There is nothing about ethics in the law on collaborators, if we want to see it is an agreement that the state does with the mafia to convince him to betray his and be infamous. The more one is criminal the more one is useful: a brusque that tells 150 murders is much more useful than many small ones who tell two of which I already know everything. To these I refused the collaboration, they would have obtained benefits without giving anything useful. Thinking about this law with a moralistic ethical approach is wrong: in itself it is immoral, because such must be to work. Today we can say that law allowed us to delete the Corleonese Stragism from history, without would go on ». And they had already jumped in the chinnic, capable air, via d’Amelio, the Georgofili, San Giovanni in Laterano San Giorgio al Velabro, via Palestro … For this I told about the phrase of Lo Voi who confronted the murder of a friend of his. We would not have known who is brusque without ».
