The number of suspects for the murder of the judge has risen to 20 Antonino Scopelliti. In addition to the first 17 to which the warranty notice was notified in 2019 when the DDA of Reggio Calabria had found the rifle thanks to the declarations of the collaborator of justice Maurizio Avolaare investigated now Other leading exponents of the ‘Ndrangheta of the Reggina province also: Pasquale Condello, Giuseppe De Stefano, Giuseppe Morabito, Luigi Mancuso, Giuseppe Zito and the boss of the “Milanese” gangs Franco Coco Found.
The new names are contained in the search decree carried out in the past few weeks by the Mobile Team in Messina. Among the names indicated in the document, which also that of the Catania boss Nitto Santapaola towards which, however, “one cannot proceed because it is already acquitted for the murder Scopelliti”.
In the investigation, some bosses are also investigated which in the meantime have died, Matteo Messina Denaro, Giovanni Tegano and Francesco Romeo.
In the provision, signed by the Reggio Calabria prosecutor Giuseppe Lombardo and from the substitute of the DDA Sara Parozzanthere is still Matteo Messina Denaro who, according to the declarations of the collaborator of justice Maurizio Avola, would have participated in the executive phase of the crime that would have been decided “during a meeting held in Trapani in the spring of 1991”.
According to the prosecutors, “the murder mandate came directly from Totò Riina” who commissioned Messina Denaro who, in turn, “received the operational information relating to the life habits of the magistrate from Salvo Lima”, the MEP of the DC killed in an ambush in Palermo on March 12, 1992 Local who remained unknown that warned the group in charge of the murder regarding the travels of the magistrate “.