Giovanni Brusca, the former right-hand man of Totò Riina, linked in video this morning to the appeal process on the negotiation between the state and the mafia . The former boss, now a collaborator of justice, appears for the first time after being released from prison in recent days for having finished serving a 25-year prison sentence.

The collaborator, assisted by the lawyer Salvatore Fieramonti, is video connected by a reserved site. Today - before the Court of Assizes of Appeal presided over by Angelo Pellino (Vittorio Anania judge on the side) - the prosecution should end the indictment by formulating the request for a sentence for the accused. Speaking were the deputy attorneys general Giuseppe Fici and Sergio Barbiera.

In the first instance, the Assize Court, in May 2018, sentenced the boss Leoluca Bagarella to 28 years in prison; 12 years for the former senator Marcello Dell'Utri, the former carabinieri of the Ros Mario Mori and Antonio Subranni and the former doctor who was very faithful to Totò Riina, Antonino Cinà; and 8 years for the former captain of the carabinieri Giuseppe De Donno.