HIST-B 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Salvatore Lima, Carabinieri, Pentito
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Seizure of riina"s property (1982 la torre law) 1992 (january 31st) verdict of court of cassation (w/o carnevale) Murders of lima (march 12), falcone/capaci bomb (may 23), borsellino (july 19), Andreotti attended lima"s, most other politicians stay away bc they don"t want to be associated with the memory of lima and his ma a connections. ~lima = dc party leader, friend/ally of andreotti, mayor of palermo, he was the key to andreotti"s rise in power. ~lima was how the dc worked with the ma a, lima = liaison. ~he promised to keep the heat off of the ma a in return for votes. State funerals for capaci bomb victims and borsellino escorts. Seemed like the state was completely unable to respond. His widow wanted a private funeral, didn"t want politicians coming. Politicians who went to previous funerals were shouted at. Witness protection program and 41 bis (solitary con nement for capi)
