Pietro Grasso

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Pietro Grasso (2019)

Pietro Grasso (also called Piero Grasso ; born January 1, 1945 in Licata , Sicily ) is an Italian lawyer, politician and party leader of the left-wing Liberi e Uguali party . Grasso was President of the Italian Senate from March 2013 to March 2018 .

Before he embarked on a political career at the end of 2012, he headed the “ National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor ”.

Life

Grasso grew up in Palermo . After attending school, studying law and doing military service, he became a magistrate (pretore) in Barrafranca in Sicily in 1971 . From 1972 to 1984 he worked as a public prosecutor in Palermo, where the Second Great Mafia War raged from 1981 to 1983 , in which, among others, Piersanti Mattarella , Pio La Torre and Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa were murdered. From 1984 he worked as a judge in the so-called maxi trial against the mafia. In February 1989 he became an advisor to the Anti-Mafia Committee of the Italian Parliament . From May 1991 he worked with Giovanni Falcone in the Italian Ministry of Justice , whose tasks he took over there after his murder. In January 1993 he moved to the new National Anti-Mafia Public Prosecutor's Office, and in 1999 he took over as head of the Palermo Public Prosecutor's Office. On October 25, 2005, Pietro Grasso became head of the National Anti-Mafia Public Prosecutor's Office. As a national anti- mafia public prosecutor (procuratore nazionale antimafia) he succeeded in arresting the mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano . Grasso resigned on December 27, 2012 down and resigned on January 8, 2013 from the civil service in order for the parliamentary elections on 24 and 25 February 2013 as a member of the Partito Democratico (PD) for a senator mandate in the region Lazio to to run. He was President of the Senate from March 16, 2013 to March 24, 2018.

After the resignation of President Giorgio Napolitano on January 14, 2015, he assumed the duties of Italian head of state until President Sergio Mattarella took office on February 3.

In November 2017, Grasso announced his exit from the Partito Democratico, justifying this with internal party differences. At the beginning of December of the same year, he was named the top candidate of the left-wing electoral alliance Liberi e Uguali (LeU), which emerged at the end of November from the Sinistra Italiana and the left Partito Democratico spin-offs Articolo 1 - Movimento Democratico e Progressista and Possibile .

He was re-elected Senator for LeU in the parliamentary elections on March 4, 2018.

Web links

Commons : Pietro Grasso  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence