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Mafia, Giovanni Brusca has been released from prison: he has finished serving his sentence

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He has finished serving his sentence and from today Giovanni Brusca, one of the bloodiest killers of the Corleonese wing of Cosa Nostra, the hitman who operated the remote control for the Capaci massacre, is a free man.

In the afternoon – as revealed by the online edition of l’Espresso – “u verru” (the pig) as he was nicknamed in the mafia circles left the Rebibbia prison 45 days before the expiry of the sentence. He will be subjected to checks and protection and to four years of probation, as decided by the Milan Court of Appeal.

Giovanni Brusca, however, was not “only” one of the most bloodthirsty killers of Cosa Nostra and of the massacre of the Corleonesi. Giovanni Brusca was also one of the main mafia repentants, the man who collaborated with the magistrates by framing bosses, wingmen and white-collar workers and who revealed the terrorist strategy of Cosa Nostra.

Brusca was released from prison due to the law of February 13, 2001 thanks to which he finished serving his prison sentence for the Italian State. Having chosen to collaborate with the justice system, he obtained the penalty discounts provided for by the law. A law – let it be clear – fundamental and paradoxically supported also by Giovanni Falcone (who was the promoter of the forerunner law of the one thanks to which Brusca was released from prison) and thanks to which many crimes of Cosa Nostra have been revealed and without which no mafioso probably he would have chosen the path of collaboration.

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Giovanni Busca is now 64 years old and grew up on bread and the mafia. His father Bernardo was the boss of San Giuseppe Jato. He is directly responsible for the death of Giuseppe Di Matteo, Santino’s son, kidnapped, killed and then dissolved in acid; it was he who operated the remote control for the Capaci massacre, and it is to him that dozens of mafia murders are attributed, including that of Ignazio Salvo.

Brusca was captured in Agrigento on May 20, 1996 where he was hiding in the villa of Cannatello of a Favarese supporter of the mafia.

Tried and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder Salvo, to obtain a discount on the sentence, he chose to collaborate with the justice system. And so Brusca obtained that his sentence was reduced to 26 years in prison in exchange for the information that allowed to shed light on numerous mafia crimes, including the murder in Palermo of judge Rocco Chinnici (29 July 1983), by Commissioner Beppe Montana (in Santa Flavia, 28 July 1985), by Deputy Chief Ninni Cassarà (Palermo, 6 August 1985)

The cruelest crime is undoubtedly that of the little Giuseppe Di Matteo, the thirteen-year-old son of the repentant Santino, kidnapped in November 1993 to convince his father to retract his statements made to the judges. He was killed three years later in a cottage in the countryside of San Giuseppe Jato, where the boy was strangled and his body dissolved in acid.

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