Pentito is used colloquially to designate collaborators of justice in Italian criminal procedure terminology who were formerly part of criminal organizations and decided to collaborate with a public prosecutor. The judicial category of pentiti was originally created in 1970s to combat violence and terrorism during the period of left-wing and right-wing terrorism known as the Years of Lead. During the 1986–87 Maxi Trial and after the testimony of Tommaso Buscetta,the term was increasingly applied to former members of organized crime in Italy who had abandoned their organization and started helping investigators.
Giuliano Amato is an Italian politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Italy,first from 1992 to 1993 and again from 2000 to 2001. Upon Arnaldo Forlani's death in July 2023,Amato became the country's earliest-serving Prime Minister.
Ferruccio Parri was an Italian partisan and anti-fascist politician who served as the 29th Prime Minister of Italy,and the first to be appointed after the end of World War II. During the war,he was also known by his nom de guerreMaurizio.
Salvatore Achille Ettore Lima,often referred to as Salvo Lima,was an Italian politician from Sicily who was associated with,and murdered by,the Sicilian Mafia. According to the pentito Tommaso Buscetta,Lima's father,Vincenzo Lima,was a member of the Mafia but is not known whether Lima himself was a made member of Cosa Nostra. In the final report of the first Antimafia Commission (1963–1976),Lima was described as one of the pillars of Mafia power in Palermo.
Francesco Rutelli is an Italian journalist and former politician,who is the president of ANICA National Association of Film and Audiovisual Industry,since October 2016 and re-elected for the 2020–2022 term,plus ANICA Servizi. He's the legal representative of MIA . He also chairs the "Centro per un Futuro Sostenibile". He was during 15 years co-president of the European Democratic Party,a centrist European political party. He has been Mayor of Rome 1994–2001,and president of the centrist party Democracy is Freedom –The Daisy 2002–2007. He was the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture and Tourism in the second cabinet of Prime Minister Romano Prodi 2006–2008. Currently he also chairs Incontro di Civiltà;Videocittà,Moving Images Festival;PrioritàCultura that gathers outstanding Italian personalities,engaged on Heritage conservation and promotion,contemporary arts,public-private partnership in the many fields of Culture.
The 2001 Italian general election was held in Italy on 13 May 2001 to elect members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic. The election was won by the centre-right coalition House of Freedoms led by Silvio Berlusconi,defeating Francesco Rutelli,former mayor of Rome,and leader of the centre-left coalition The Olive Tree,and rising back to power after Berlusconi's first victory in the 1994 Italian general election.
Roberto Castelli is an Italian politician. He was the Minister of Justice in the second and third governments of Silvio Berlusconi. He has been one of the main representatives of Lega Nord.
Luciano Violante is an Italian judge and politician.
Angelino Alfano is an Italian former politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 12 December 2016 to 1 June 2018.
Gaspare Mutolo is a Sicilian mafioso,also known as "Asparino". In 1992 he became a pentito. He was the first mafioso who spoke about the connections between Cosa Nostra and Italian politicians. Mutolo's declarations contributed to the indictment of Italy's former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti and to an understanding of the context of the 1992 Mafia murders of the politician Salvo Lima and the magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
Francesco Paolo Bonifacio was an Italian politician,jurist and academic. He served as Minister of Justice and President of the Constitutional Court of Italy.
The Ministry of Justice of Italy is a department of the government of Italy. Headquartered in Rome,headed by the political official who serve as Minister of Justice.
Andrea Orlando is an Italian politician who served as minister of labour and social policies from 2021 to 2022 in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Mario Draghi. From 2013 to 2018 he served as minister of the environment under Enrico Letta and as minister of justice under Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni from 2014 to 2018. He served as deputy secretary of the Democratic Party between 2019 and 2021.
Raffaele Cantone is an Italian magistrate. In March 2014,he was appointed president of the National Anti-Corruption Authority by the then Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi;he held the office until October 2019. In June 2020,Cantone was appointed by the High Council of the Judiciary as the chief prosecutor in Perugia.
The High Council of the Judiciary is an Italian institution of constitutional importance,entrusted to preside over the organisation of the Italian Judiciary. The High Council sits in the Palazzo dei Marescialli,Piazza Indipendenza 6,Rome.
Gianfranco Miccichè is an Italian politician.
The term State-Mafia Pact describes an alleged series of negotiations between important Italian government officials and Cosa Nostra members that began after the period of the 1992 and 1993 terror attacks by the Sicilian Mafia with the aim to reach a deal to stop the attacks;according to other sources and hypotheses,it began even earlier. In summary,the supposed cornerstone of the deal was an end to "the Massacre Season" in return for a reduction in the detention measures provided for Italy's Article 41-bis prison regime. 41-bis was the law by which the Antimafia pool led by Giovanni Falcone had condemned hundreds of mafia members to the "hard prison regime". The negotiation hypothesis has been the subject of long investigations,both by the courts and in the media. In 2021,the Court of Appeal of Palermo acquitted a close associate of former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi,while upholding the sentences of the mafia bosses. This ruling was confirmed by the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation in 2023.
Donato Bruno was an Italian politician.
Carlo Nordio is an Italian politician,former magistrate and prosecutor,who is serving as Italian Minister of Justice since 22 October 2022,in Giorgia Meloni's government. In the 2022 Italian presidential election he was the candidate of Brothers of Italy for President of Italy. In the 2022 Italian general election he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies.
Francesco Lollobrigida is an Italian politician who has been the minister of agriculture since 22 October 2022. A leading member of the national-conservative Brothers of Italy,Lollobrigida is widely considered one of the closest allies of Giorgia Meloni.
