Rebirth-Scott: the boss Luigi Mancuso and the No to the massacre strategy of Cosa Nostra
The collaborator Umile Arturi told of the 1992 'ndrangheta meeting in Nicotera Marina to discuss the requests of the Corleonesi
Collaborator of justice since 1996, Umile Arturi of Cosenza was deposed today in the Rinascita-Scott maxi-trial before the Collegial Court Arturi explained that he was part of the clan headed by Franco Pino , an ally of Antonio Sena and deployed against the Perna-Pranno-Vitelli clan. “ Franco Pino had high 'Ndrangheta skills and I was two steps below him as I had the degree of the Gospel. At the end of the mafia war at the end of the 80s we divided the territory of Cosenza with the Perna-Pranno-Vitelli clan â€
Umile Arturi then confirmed the deposition of collaborator Franco Pino in the account of the meeting in 1992, in a village of Nicotera Marina, to examine the proposal of the Corleonesi of Totò Riina and of the Santapaola to join the massacre strategy after the attack D'Amelio in Palermo cost the life of judge Paolo Borsellino and the men of the escort.
Compared to Franco Pino's deposition, however, Umile Arturi indicated among the participants in the meeting three names that had not been mentioned by the first collaborator who had indeed underlined its absence: Pino Piromalli from Gioia Tauro, Peppe Pesce from Rosarno and Giuseppe Farao from Cirò. Franco Pino had instead spoken of the presence of Nino Pesce and Silvio Farao accompanied by Cataldo Marincola (the latter name also made by Umile Arturi).
Among the others - according to the two collaborators - were present at the meeting, the "landlord" Luigi Mancuso of Limbadi and Franco Coco Trova of Marcedusa, resident in Lombardy and related to the De Stefano family of Reggio Calabria. “Luigi Mancuso - said Arturi - explained the Sicilians' proposal but clearly said he was against it as if we had adhered to the Sicilian massacre strategy we would have transferred the mess that happened in Sicily to Calabria as well and this was not convenient for the 'Ndrangheta , in addition to the fact that Mancuso supported the opposition to the killing of innocent people , including magistrates â€.
Umile Arturi then recalled the exchanges of favors between the clan of Cosenza and the Santapaolas of Catania, with the Sicilian firms reported to the Calabrians for “favor†treatments on the occasion of public works in Calabria . Finally, the admission by Umile Arturi that he had committed murders in the 1980s on behalf of the De Stefano clan, while the project of death inside the prison against the boss Franco Perna entrusted to a lifer, would then be skipped after the transfer of the prisoner.
