Carmine Pecorelli

Carmine "Mino" Pecorelli (born September 14, 1928 in Sessano del Molise , † March 20, 1979 in Rome ) was an Italian investigative journalist who was murdered less than a year after the kidnapping of the top Italian politician Aldo Moro . Pecorelli, who had very good contacts with secret services, had published extensively on the kidnapping and murder of Moro.

Life

Pecorelli graduated in law and worked as a lawyer. In 1962 he headed the press department in the Ministry of Public Works under Fiorentino Sullo and thus came to journalism. He founded the press agency Osservatorio Politico (OP), which exposed some political scandals; Pecorelli published news for intelligence services. The later murdered Police General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa was given the name Amen in the Pecorelli reports . According to Pecorelli, it was Amen who reported Interior Minister Francesco Cossiga of the discovery of the cave where Moro was being held during his abduction. After Aldo Moro's murder, Pecorelli published Moro's letters to his family. In a cryptically worded article in May 1978, Pecorelli made a connection between Aldo Moro's murder and the then unknown secret organization Gladio .

In September 1978, Pecorelli also published a list of Vatican clergymen who are said to belong to the Propaganda Due Lodge . Among those named were the Curia Cardinals Jean-Marie Villot , Sebastiano Baggio and Ugo Poletti . Pecorelli was a member of the secret box himself.

Theses on the Moro murder

Pecorelli wrote in an article that the kidnapping and murder of Moro was initiated by a lucido superpotere ( luminous superpower ). In his opinion, the act corresponded to the “logic of the Yalta Conference ”, at which the division of Europe into the two spheres of influence of the USA and the Soviet Union was prepared at the end of the Second World War . This statement is interpreted in such a way that Pecorelli saw Moro's death as a result of the planned “ historical compromise ” with the communists.

assassination

Mino Pecorelli was murdered in the Prati district of Rome by four pistol shots with Jules Gévelot ammunition .

The investigations were directed against Massimo Carminati , a member of the right-wing extremist Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari , the head of the secret lodge Propaganda Due, Licio Gelli , Colonel Antonio Viezzer, head of the military intelligence service Servizio Informazioni Difesa , as well as against Cristiano and Valerio Fioravanti, the latter later convicted for the final Bologna bombing in 1980 .

On April 6, 1993, mafia dropout Tommaso Buscetta testified before a judge in Palermo that his boss Gaetano Badalamenti had told him that Pecorelli had been murdered in connection with interests of Giulio Andreotti . Buscetta testified that Badalamenti had told him that Antonio Salvo's "cousins" (mafia jargon for gang members) carried out the contract killing as a favor for Andreotti. Andreotti feared that Pecorelli would publish information about him that could have ended his political career.

In 1999 Andreotti, Claudio Vitalone, Gaetano Badalamenti, Giuseppe Calò , Massimo Carminati and Michelangelo La Barbera were acquitted by a court in Perugia.

On November 17, 2002, Andreotti, Badalamenti and Carminati were sentenced in the second instance to 24 years' imprisonment each for the murder of Pecorelli. The judgment was overturned on October 30, 2003 in the appeal hearing by the Supreme Court of Cassation .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Philip Willan: Moro's ghost haunts political life ( Memento from August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), The Guardian , May 9, 2003.
2. ↑ Fiorentino Sullo in Italian-speaking Wikipedia.
3. ↑ David Yallop : In the Name of God? P. 246, ISBN 3-426-03812-9 .
4. ^ ^{A b} Massimo Carminati in the Italian language Wikipedia.
5. ^ Claudio Vitalone in the Italian language Wikipedia.