Felice Casson

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Felice Casson

Felice Casson (born August 5, 1953 in Chioggia , Province of Venice ) is an Italian judge , public prosecutor and independent politician . He was instrumental in uncovering the Gladio stay-behind organization . From 2006 to 2018 he was a member of the Italian Senate .

Judicial activity and Gladio investigations

Enthusiastic about law, he completed his studies at the University of Padua and began his career as a magistrato (judge and public prosecutor) in 1980 . He was initially employed as an investigative judge ( giudice istruttore or giudice per le indagini preliminari ).

From 1984 Casson investigated the bomb attack in Peteano (strage di Peteano) in 1972, in which three Carabinieri were killed and two others injured. The left-wing extremist Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse) were initially held responsible for this. However, Casson uncovered a number of errors and falsifications in the previous investigation. He was able to prove that - unlike in attacks by the Red Brigades - in Peteano C4 had been used, a very effective explosive that is also used by the armed forces of NATO . Finally, he managed to identify members of the neo-fascist group Ordine Nuovo as actual perpetrators. One of the terrorists, Vincenzo Vinciguerra , confessed to the fact that the far-right group had been supported by the Italian military intelligence service SID and other government agencies.

In July 1990 Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti gave Casson permission to search the archives of the secret service SISMI (successor to SID). There he discovered the existence of the stay-behind organization Gladio . He forwarded his findings to the Senate investigative committee into attacks and terrorism in Italy. Thereupon Andreotti publicly confirmed the existence of Gladio on August 3, 1990.

From 1993 to 2005 Casson worked as a public prosecutor (pubblico ministero) in Venice. In this capacity, he was the main prosecutor in 1998 in the trials against the directors of EniChem and Montedison , which involved an environmental disaster and the death of 157 workers due to PVC production in Marghera , an industrial district near Venice mainly used for petrochemicals went. Most recently he had the status of magistrate at the Corte Suprema di Cassazione .

Political career

In 2005 he resigned from the judiciary to run for the office of Mayor of Venice. He was supported by Democratici di Sinistra (DS; Left Democrats), Partito della Rifondazione Comunista (PRC; Communists), Federazione dei Verdi (FdV; Greens) and other center-left parties. The party Democrazia è Libertà - La Margherita , which actually also belonged to the center-left alliance ( L'Unione ), put up its own candidate, the former mayor Massimo Cacciari . Casson was ahead in the first ballot with 37.7%, but lost in the runoff against Cacciari with 49.5%.

In the Italian parliamentary elections in 2006 , Casson was elected to the Senate as a non-party, supported by the DS, on the center-left L'Ulivo list, where he represented the Veneto region . Casson was a member of the Judiciary Committee, the Committee on Elections and Parliamentary Immunity and the joint committee of both chambers of parliament on indictment proceedings until 2018. He was also a member of the Committee of Inquiry into Depleted Uranium from 2006-08 . In the parliamentary elections in 2008 he was re-elected to the list of the Partito Democratico (PD), to which DS and Margherita had now merged. From July to November 2008 he was a member of the committee of inquiry into fatal accidents at work. From 2010 to 2013 he was deputy chairman of the PD parliamentary group in the Senate.

In 2013 , Casson was elected to the Senate for another term. In the legislative period up to 2018 he was deputy chairman of the judiciary committee in the Senate and secretary of the Parliamentary Control Commission for the Secret Services (COPASIR). In 2015 Casson ran again for the mayoral election in Venice. This time he was the candidate of the entire center-left camp, but was defeated in the runoff election with 46.8% of the center-right candidate Luigi Brugnaro . Casson left the PD parliamentary group in February 2017 and joined the left-wing parliamentary group Articolo 1 - Movimento Democratico e Progressista , of which he was a member until he left the Senate in March 2018.

bibliography

  • Lo stato violato (1985 - "The Raped State")
  • Servizi segreti e il segreto di stato (1992 - "Secret Services and State Secret")
  • La fabbrica dei veleni (2007 - "The poison factory")

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ L'Ufficio REI del SIFAR, tra Confindustria e Gladio . In: AgoraVox Italia . April 24, 2014 ( agoravox.it [accessed January 7, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Antonino Arconte: L'ultima missione. G-71 e la verità negata. Quando tutto è menzogna, dire la verità è un atto ... rivoluzionario! Con CD-ROM . Antonino Arconte, 2017, ISBN 978-88-900678-2-2 ( google.de [accessed January 7, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Charles Zorgbibe: Histoire de l'Otan . Editions Complexe, 2002, ISBN 978-2-87027-917-5 ( google.de [accessed January 7, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Casson, Felice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian judge and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 5th August 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Chioggia