Searches launched against De Gennaro and Contorno in Borsellino massacre inquiry
The Caltanissetta Prosecutor's Office has ordered searches against former Police Chief Gianni De Gennaro and turncoat Salvatore Contorno. The investigation concerns the disappearance of the red diary and the cover-up in the via D'Amelio massacre.
Former police chief and maxi-trial turncoat under investigation
According to rainews.it, the Caltanissetta Prosecutor's Office has ordered searches at the residence and offices of Gianni De Gennaro, former police chief and current president of the consortium that is to build the bridge across the Strait. The operation, conducted by the Ros, is part of an investigative line in the "against unknown persons" inquiry into the Borsellino massacre. De Gennaro is under investigation together with maxi-trial turncoat Salvatore Contorno, against whom searches were also carried out at his residence.
The investigation concerns the involvement of institutional bodies in the disappearance of the red diary and in the cover-up of the via D'Amelio massacre. The offices of three De Gennaro associates were also searched, one of whom belongs to the secret services. Contorno was persuaded not to speak to the Nissene magistrates about the past, including his mysterious return under arms to Palermo.
De Gennaro was a friend of Giovanni Falcone and features among the leading figures in the fight against the Mafia in the Nineteen Eighties. The Caltanissetta Prosecutor's Office hypothesises that the cover-up was carried out on superior orders, with possible involvement of the late Arnaldo La Barbera, who had arrested Contorno: an episode that cemented the relationship between the two police officers.
Source: Google News IT — Crime (it)