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However, Paolo Borsellino - Wikipedia
In his last video interview, given on May 21, 1992 to Jean Pierre Moscardo and Fabrizio Calvi, Borsellino spoke about the possible link between Cosa Nostra's mafiosi and rich Italian businessmen such as future Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.[4] The interview received surprisingly little coverage on Italian television (half of which was owned by Berlusconi); as of 2007, it has been aired on only one occasion, and that by a satellite channel RaiNews 24 in 2000, in an abridged version which is a mere 30 minutes long (it is 50 minutes long in its original form).
This cannot exclude that Riina may have conceived it or someone close to him outside the organization may have suggested it. A state witness declared in 1994 that Riina had organized a summit in which he launched the idea of taking the war against the State to the mainland.
What about Giovanni Brusca? I seem to remember from articles at the time of his arrest that he was credited with the idea, too. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
For ambitious operations killers are chosen from various mandamenti. There is always a turnover to avoid burnouts (I don't recall the actual mafia term for the state of madness that afflicts killers. The mafia eliminates their killers that go over the edge- an occupational hazard.) Often the operation is divided into teams that have specific actions to carry out without knowing the identity of members of the other teams.
Spatuzza seems to be an exception, as he participated in all the major continental terrorist actions. He was the key go-between between his squads and the Gravianos.
Brusca became a state witness. His testimony led to the solution of many Mafia mysteries.
Brusca was the man who killed a collaborator's eight-year-old son, Giuseppe Di Matteo. The past week Spatuzza has been falsely branded as the man who materially committed that murder. He did participate in the kidnapping but turned the kid over to the second team whose identities he did not know at the time.
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