Nicola Mancino

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Mancino himself told me that he had met Borsellino on 1 July 1992. More: Mancino showed me his meeting agenda with the name of Borsellino on it [1]

However, later Ayala refuted these words in an interview to magazine Sette. A personal agenda in possess of Borsellino's family, has an annotation by the judge saying: "1 July h 19:30 : Mancino". [2] Vittorio Aliquò, the other magistrate who was interviewing Mutolo at the time of ministry's phone call, later declared that he had accompanied Borsellino "up to the threshold of the minister's office". [3] In 2007 a letter from Paolo Borsellino's brother, Salvatore, was published. Entitled 19 luglio 1992: Una strage di stato ("19 July 1992: A state massacre"), the letter supports the hypothesis that Minister of Interiors Nicola Mancino knew the causes of the magistrate's assassination. Borsellino's brother wrote:

I ask Mancino, of whom I remembered, of the years after 1992, a hardly pushed down drop in the commemorations of Paolo in Palermo, to squeeze his memory to tell us what they talked about in the meeting with Paolo in the days immediately before his death. Or to explain us why, after calling my brother to meet him when he was interrogating Gaspare Mutolo, just 48 hours before the massacre, he had him meet the Head of Police Parisi and Bruno Contrada, a meeting from which Paolo got out shattered, at the point that he was seen holding two cigarettes at the same time... In that meeting is surely the key to his death and the Massacre of Via D'Amelio. [4]

A law enacted and signed by Mancino in 1993 during his tenure as Interior Minister permits the prosecution of those involved in racial, ethnic and religious discrimination and the incitement of hate crime. This law is commonly called the "Mancino law". [5] [6]

Later career

In 1994, after the dissolution of Democrazia Cristiana, Mancino adhered to the Italian People's Party (PPI), collaborating with its secretary, Mino Martinazzoli. In July of the same year, he opposed the alliance with the right-wing coalition led by Silvio Berlusconi, and also opposed the election of Rocco Buttiglione as PPI secretary.

Later, he became a member of La Margherita (The Daisy) coalition of parties born out of the left wing of the PPI. After the victory of the center-left coalition led by Romano Prodi in the 1996 elections, Mancino was elected President of the Italian Senate, and served from 9 May 1996 until 29 May 2001.

On 24 July 2006, he left the Senate and became deputy-president of the Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura , Italy's senior council of justice. In July 2012, prosecutors in Palermo ordered Mancino to stand trial for withholding evidence about the alleged talks between the Italian state and the Mafia during the latter's bombing campaign in 1992 that assassinated, among others, the judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. [7] On 20 April 2018, he was acquitted. [8]

Electoral history

Nicola Mancino
Nicola Mancino datisenato 1996.jpg
Mancino in 2006
President of the Senate of the Republic
In office
9 May 1996 29 May 2001
ElectionHouseConstituencyPartyVotesResult
1976 Senate of the Republic CampaniaAvellino DC 42,756Yes check.svgYElected
1979 Senate of the Republic CampaniaAvellino DC 45,706Yes check.svgYElected
1983 Senate of the Republic CampaniaAvellino DC 47,303Yes check.svgYElected
1987 Senate of the Republic CampaniaAvellino DC 53,987Yes check.svgElected
1992 Senate of the Republic CampaniaAvellino DC 53,439Yes check.svgElected
1994 Senate of the Republic CampaniaAvellino PPI 57,286Yes check.svgElected
1996 Senate of the Republic CampaniaAvellino PPI 69,432Yes check.svgElected
2001 Senate of the Republic CampaniaAvellino DL 70,765Yes check.svgElected
2006 Senate of the Republic Campania DL [a] Yes check.svgElected
  1. Elected in a closed list proportional representation system.

References

  1. 1 2 Borsellino, Salvatore (27 September 2010). "Le domande che non avrei voluto fare". Il Fatto Quotidiano . Retrieved 23 May 2012.
  2. Borsellino, Salvatore. "LA REPLICA DI SALVATORE BORSELLINO AL SEN.MANCINO" . Retrieved 23 May 2012.
  3. Alfano, Chicco. "Quell'agenda rossa di Paolo Borsellino..." Archived from the original on 12 June 2009. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
  4. "Il fratello di Borsellino: "Mancino ora sveli perché incontrò Paolo"". Il Giornale . Retrieved 23 May 2012.
  5. "Criminal Code (1993) (excerpts)". LegislatiOnline. Archived from the original on 12 October 2020. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
  6. "Furore as family minister moots scrapping anti-fascist Mancino law". ANSA on Politics. 3 August 2018.
  7. Italy: Ex-interior minister implicated in mafia negotiations, Adnkronos, 25 July 2012
  8. "Trattativa Stato-mafia, condannati Mori, De Donno, Dell'Utri e Bagarella. Assolto Mancino". La Repubblica (in Italian). 20 April 2018.
Political offices
Preceded by Minister of the Interior
1992–1994
Succeeded by
Preceded by President of the Italian Senate
1996–2001
Succeeded by
Preceded by President of Italy
Acting

1999
Succeeded by
Legal offices
Preceded by Vice President of the High Council of the Judiciary
2006–2010
Succeeded by