" Do not ask me who the political compromises with the mafia. If you answer, could undermine the rule "
(T. Buscetta)
E 'in 1974. Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal, ABC sends the first episode of Happy Days , Italy mourns the eight martyrs of neo-fascist massacre of Piazza della Loggia. A man crossed the first gate Villa San Martino , Arcore. Casa Berlusconi .
Occhialoni da vista in viso, accento siciliano, sguardo da duro. Il suo nome è Vittorio Mangano , il suo curriculum ricco di arresti e denunce . Berlusconi dice di averlo assunto come stalliere . E in effetti la splendida residenza appena prelevata a un prezzo stracciato dalle mani di Annamaria Casati Stampa, un’orfana minorenne, ospita, all’interno dello sterminato parco che la circonda, un maneggio.
C'è il maneggio, dunque, e c’è il fattore. Mancano, però, i cavalli . E mancheranno per tutti i due anni di permanenza dell'oscuro personaggio in villa.
Due anni che Mangano, joined by his wife and children in Arcore, does not pass between saddles and oats, but living in close contact with the Knight and his family takes her children to school regularly at the same dinner table Silvio even in the presence of guests. Sometimes also invites his friends in Sicily: according to several repentant, are nothing but mafia fugitives.
Sometimes the stay is interrupted. At stake are not horse races, but the aftermath of Sicilian life: two convictions for receiving stolen property and misuse of port knife.
served in prison punishment, return home Mangano Silvio , who caught his legendary philanthropic spirit-assured, I take back with open arms both times. What do you want, I know you guys!
Berlusconi did not even bat an eyelid when the police warned him that his tenant-farmer is actually an inside guy kidnapping attempt against a longtime friend of Knight. There is therefore no wonder that Silvio turns a blind eye even when they disappear from the villa paintings, jewelry and other valuables : simple reimbursement of expenses. In fact
Berlusconi, who is not stupid, Mangano knows how. The decision to host Arcore - as affirmed by the Court of Palermo - was taken during a meeting dell'Edilnord occurred in the offices in Milan. Present Berlusconi and three Mafia bosses of the first order: Francesco di Carlo, who will tell boss encounter at Alton magisrati, Mimmo Teresi, boss of the family of Santa Maria del Gesù, and Stefano goodness, the boss of bosses, head of the Cosa Nostra who died a few years later killed at the hands of Corleonesi of Toto Riina. Craftsman meeting Marcello Dell'Utri, a close friend of Berlusconi, who is in the mafia the ideal shelter for the safety of the Knight. According to the ruling of the Court of Appeal of Palermo and sentenced him to seven years' imprisonment for complicity with the Mafia, Dell'Utri was the intermediary that allowed Mafia to extort money and favors to Berlusconi and his companies. In practice, the Knight, concerned about the kidnappings and threats from the mafia, would not have addressed the Police and the judiciary for protection, but the mafia itself. Matter of taste.
In 1976, two years after his arrival, Mangano leave forever Villa San Martino. Dell'Utri but does not leave him. Marcello, that between the 70s and 80s partecipara at least two dinners with top-level Mafia bosses , can be intercepted by the police as he discusses on the phone with Mangano of horses to be delivered to the hotel - the second when Paolo Borsellino Mangano talks about horses means lots of heroin - and meet for at least two occasions (in November 1993, the mind works to create Force Italy), the Mafia boss, returned from a sentence of 10 years for drug trafficking (not by chance Borsellino defines it as the "bridgehead north of the Cosa Nostra" for drug trafficking). Arrested again in '95, Mangano will undergo three other convictions: in '99 will be sentenced to 15 years for drugs and 15 others for racketeering, will be sentenced in 2000 to 'life imprisonment for double murder . He dies in prison on July 23 of that year. Do you understand these factors?
Berlusconi seems to want to leave behind this cumbersome past. That, however, at least according to statements by the financier Philip Rapier and some repentant, some signs leaves. Like 113 billion lire from unknown (about € 250milioni of current) that between 1975 and 1983 fill up his holding company Fininvest. Where is this money? And 'the treasure of goodness Stefano, as claimed by the repentant? We'll never know. On 26 November 2002, when the judges come to Palermo at Palazzo Chigi to ask him this simple question of clarification, Berlusconi will use right to remain silent.
Who, then, Silvio Berlusconi? An unwitting accomplice? A helpless victim? Or a contractor collusion? Questions that remain unanswered. Unless you want to listen to Frank Coppola, a famous mobster of the '60s, when questioned by a magistrate on what was actually the mafia, said: "Suppose there is a competition for public office and there are three candidates: a collusion, a stupid one and very close to the government. Will always win that stupid.
This is the mafia. "
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