Roberto Scarpinato

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Roberto Scarpinato (born January 14, 1952 in Caltanissetta , Sicily ) is an Italian public prosecutor . He is the senior public prosecutor in the anti-mafia pool in Palermo and is considered one of the most active mafia hunters . That is why he has been under constant personal protection since 1989 .

Life

Scarpinato is the son of a judge who was active in the fight against the mafia in the 1950s. He studied law at the University of Catania . After graduating in 1977, he accepted a position as a judge in Rome . In 1988 he returned to Palermo, where he joined the anti-mafia pool around judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino , who were both murdered by the mafia in 1992.

He set up a department in the Public Prosecutor's Office in Palermo that exclusively investigates mafia crimes that are related to politics and the economy. As Deputy Prosecutor General, he prepared the charges for a number of well-known criminal cases, including the case in connection with the murder of the President of the Regione Siciliana , Piersanti Mattarella , or the then police chief Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa . He was the chief prosecutor in the criminal trial against the multiple Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti , which ended in 2003 with an acquittal due to the statute of limitations.

On February 5, 2010, at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, as part of the 14th Karlsruhe Talks, he gave the lecture entitled Organized Crime - Crime in the 3rd Millennium .

plant

  • Roberto Scarpinato and Saverio Lodato: Il ritorno del principe. Chiarelettere, Milano 2008.
  • Roberto Scarpinato: The Mafia in the Global World: Rogue Economy. In: Frankfurter Rundschau, February 8, 2010.
  • Roberto Scarpinato: Organized Crime in the Third Millennium. In: Robertson-von Trotha, Caroline Y. (Ed.): Organized Crime. Dark Sides of Globalization (= interdisciplinary cultural studies / Interdisciplinary Studies on Culture and Society, Vol. 8), Baden-Baden 2012.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Rossmann : The Mafia Hunter. FAZ.NET, December 10, 2007, accessed on August 28, 2009 .
  2. ↑ Julia Kospach: The Mafia does not forget. Interview with Roberto Scarpinato. Berliner Zeitung, November 18, 2006, accessed on August 28, 2009 .
  3. ^ Petra Reski: Mafia. Cycle of silence. Interview with Roberto Scarpinato. ZEIT ONLINE, February 7, 2008, accessed on August 28, 2009 .
  4. ↑ Roberto Scarpinato: Organized Crime - Crime in the 3rd Millennium. (Video) SWR Fernsehen Tele-Akademie, February 24, 2010, accessed on February 8, 2016 (Italian / German).

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personal data
SURNAME Scarpinato, Roberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian prosecutor
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Caltanissetta