Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea (Mar 2022)
Il delitto Lima. L’apertura del “vaso di Pandora” dei rapporti tra mafia e politica
Abstract
When the Supreme Court confirmed the Maxi-trial, on January 30, 1992, for Cosa Nostra it was not important to wonder whether the political referents had done everything possible to prevent it. All that mattered was that Andreotti ha d not kept his promises. The first to pay was Salvo Lima, leader of his current in Sicily, whose murder, on March 12, sta r ted the season of the massacre. The murder closed the long historical phase in which the relationship between Ma fia a nd the institutions had been centered on the DC. With this article I propose to reconstruct the judicial conseq uences: f r om tha t moment on, the pentiti’s confessions would have shed light on his forty-year role of mediation, paving the way for Andreotti’s indictment for external complicity in mafia association.
