2024-12-16 16:56:00
The debate on “repentants” relaunched in France? The Italian status of “collaborator” of justice allowed a mafia boss to confess to a crime committed in Corsica and to arrest dozens of people. It should be adopted in France, Italian and French prosecutors in Marseille argued on Monday.
The public prosecutor of Marseille, Nicolas Bessone, invited three Italian prosecutors to the press on Monday, following the arrest, at the beginning of December, of four people in Corsica and fourteen in Italy as part of the investigation into the murder of Paul- Félix Paoli, beach manager, in August 2023, on the Island of Beauty.
A first
Arrested in 2024 in Corsica after several months on the run, Marco Raduano, head of the Società Foggiana, a mafia group active in Puglia (south), “agreed to collaborate” and admitted to the Italian authorities that he was the “direct author” of this assassination, reported Nicolas Bessone.
“It is the first time that a foreign justice collaborator recognizes facts that occurred on national territory,” indicated Nicolas Bessone, adding: “If Marco Raduano were French, he would not be able to benefit from the status of collaborator since, as you know, our legislation excludes perpetrators of blood crimes and sponsors from the benefit of this status. »
For his counterpart from Bari, Roberto Rossi, “it is a mistake to consider collaboration for the most serious crimes scandalous: our collaborators are tools to eradicate organized crime”.
“It helps us win cases”
The Italian deputy national prosecutor, responsible for the fight against the mafia, Michele Prestipino, added: “Nothing beats the declarations of a justice collaborator”, because “they help us build and win trials but also because their existence demonstrates that the mafias can be defeated, they are not invincible and there is the possibility of getting out in a way other than being killed. » The Prosecutor’s Office also specified that the investigation revealed links, until then unknown, between the Apulian and Sardinian criminal circles and the Corsican nationalist mafia.
Our mafia dossier
Marco Raduano in fact indicated that he had murdered Paul-Félix Paoli “as part of an exchange of services with members of this Corsican nationalist movement who had helped him to exfiltrate himself from Sardinia and ensure his escape to Corsica”, said Nicolas Bessone . As part of this investigation, Marc Furfaro, former independence candidate for mayor of Lucciana (Upper Corsica), was arrested, accused of having helped Marco Raduano in his escape.
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