Overview
- Giuseppe Salvatore Riina appeared on Lo Sperone Podcast and offered an unapologetic defense of his father, the late Cosa nostra boss Totò Riina.
- He denied that his father ordered the kidnapping and murder of Giuseppe Di Matteo and cast doubt on Riina’s responsibility for the 1992 bombings that killed magistrates including Giovanni Falcone.
- Riina praised his father as a serious and honest man who “fought the system,” asserting he never witnessed him act violently.
- He attacked the anti-mafia milieu as a “carrozzone,” citing disgraced figures Silvana Saguto and Antonello Montante as examples of hollow activism.
- The hosts Gioacchino Gargano and Luca Ferrito received him with applause, while coverage noted prior provocations such as auctioning portraits of his father after returning to Corleone from an eight-year mafia-related sentence.