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He likes to make a fuss, he provokes with words and gestures. In this he is not at all like his father, who never liked public attention.
After posting lovingly about his father's figure and auctioning off his portraits, receiving dozens of enthusiastic comments, Giuseppe Salvatore Riina, son of Totò Riina, the "capoboss" of Cosa Nostra, who returned to Corleone after serving an 8-year sentence for ties to the mafia, returns to the spotlight for an interview on Lo Sperone Podcast.
As in the past, in the words of the godfather's successor there is no criticism of the family, no sign of remorse for the crimes that landed him in prison. Quite the opposite.
" My father never gave the order to kill the little Giuseppe Di Matteo. While Giovanni Falcone, when he was killed, was no longer a problem for the mafia or for Totò Riina, but for others who were hiding behind the scenes ," he declares to the hosts of the podcast, Gioacchino Gargano and Luca Ferrito, who await him with applause.
And he continues: " The anti-mafia is a carriage full of people who need the spotlight. Examples of this are the cases of judge Silvana Saguto and businessman Antonello Montante, 'anti-mafia' only in facade ."
In the name of " free thought and democracy ", Riina junior is asked about everything - starting of course with his father figure. His answer is clear: " He was a man with a capital 'B'. A man who always fought the system. Serious, honest, kept his word and thought about his family. I have never seen him commit an act of violence, return home with a gun in his hand or covered in blood ."
Leaving aside the fact that Totò Riina is serving dozens of life sentences, the podcast hosts let him speak, helping to paint a "romantic" figure: a Riina who supposedly fought the injustices of the latifondo and who was the victim of a poor and violent context. A version of history that Cosa Nostra has always wanted to spread.
" My father was arrested for obstructing, just like Bernardo Provenzano and Matteo Messina Denaro, who were ultimately eliminated by those who really held the mafia's money. Not from Sicily, but from Rome ," he adds, repeating the classic narrative that the "real mafia" is within the institutions.
Suddenly, Giuseppe Salvatore, known to his friends as "Salvuccio", compares himself to the children of Gaza: " Because I too have always grown up in the emergency. Even though, when we moved from one shelter to another with my father, for me it was like a holiday - I got to know new places and new people. I was never forbidden to leave the house. I was even born in the most famous clinic in Palermo, with my father's name and surname. Everyone knew it ."
The conversation also includes mention of the two judges killed by Cosa Nostra in 1992, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. But according to Riina junior, his father “had nothing to do with the bombings”. He alludes to “other clients”, perhaps, as he says in a low voice, “someone who wanted to stop the investigations into money laundering and the mafia’s agreements with public tenders”. And he closes the topic with an ambiguous phrase: “Whoever pulls the strings, knows exactly what he wants.”
When asked if he regretted their murder, his response is lukewarm: " I regretted that they died. And unlike some of their colleagues, respect! They did concrete deeds ."
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