Ilda Boccassini

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Ilda Boccassini (nickname: Ilda La Rossa , Italian for red Hilde because of her red hair; born December 17, 1949 in Naples ) is an Italian lawyer. She is currently (August 2013) Public Prosecutor at the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office. Boccassini was and is responsible for several sensational processes. Many of them are related to the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi .

cases

In 1989 she led the investigation into the intrusion of the Sicilian Mafia in Milan, the "Duomo Connection". In 1992 she was transferred to Caltanissetta in Sicily to investigate the murderers of her friend Giovanni Falcone and another public prosecutor.

In the mid-1990s she was involved in Operation Mani pulite , which led to the end of the so-called 1st Republic and the collapse of the most important political parties in Italy. In 2007 she exposed the anarchist movement and the “New Red Brigades” that were planning a bomb attack on Berlusconi's Milan office.

She represents the indictment in the corruption trial against Berlusconi 's British attorney David Mills and in the trial against Berlusconi for abuse of office and the promotion of prostitution of minors around Ruby Rubacuori .

In early 2013, Boccassini received numerous anonymous letters with death threats. On May 23, prosecutors announced that their office had received a letter containing a death threat explicitly related to the Ruby trial and two cartridges.

Private

Ilda Boccassini was temporarily under personal protection, does not give interviews and does not appear on television. She is married and has two young children.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g h Jörg Bremer: Unyielding against "Berlusconism". In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 15, 2011, accessed February 15, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Death threat against a prosecutor in the Ruby trial. In: The Standard . May 24, 2013. Retrieved May 24, 2013 .
  3. Petra Reski: Berlusconi does not intimidate you . Article from August 24, 2013 in the portal cicero.de , accessed on August 25, 2013