Overview
- Prosecutor Salvatore De Luca told the Parliamentary Antimafia Commission the far‑right theory tied to Stefano Delle Chiaie has no judicial basis, citing a decisive GIP archiving and non‑credible witnesses.
- He said the ROS ‘mafia‑appalti’ dossier is the most substantiated line, gathering multiple concrete indications and viewed as a contributing cause of the murders of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
- De Luca described internal conditions at the Palermo office that left the two magistrates isolated and overexposed, identifying that climate as a plausible factor in their targeting.
- Former prosecutors Giuseppe Pignatone and Gioacchino Natoli are reported under investigation over the handling of the ‘mafia‑appalti’ file, with De Luca flagging inopportune ties and property deals but stating there is no proof of corrupt payments.
- Right‑wing lawmakers welcomed the rejection of the far‑right track, while M5S and PD criticized the non‑judicial setting and the absence of adversarial testing.