Paolo Bellini, ex member of Avanguardia Nazionale, is under investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office of Caltanissetta for the Capaci massacre. He was already interrogated last Monday in Rome by the magistrates of Dda Nissena and also from Florence for the attacks of 1993. Bellini has denied any involvement.
The acting prosecutor of Bologna, Lucia Musti, in a press conference for Bellini’s arrest after the conviction in the first degree for the massacre that took place on August 2, 1980 in the city of Bologna, said to have acquired interceptions “made available by Dda Caltanissetta with Dia and by Dda Florence with Ros, under the coordination of the national anti-mafia prosecutor”.
The investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office of Caltanissetta aims to clarify the reason for Bellini’s presence in Sicily prior to the Capaci massacre. The former member of Avanguardia Nazionale had met Nino Gioè, the boss of Altofonte involved in the Capaci massacre and officially declared dead by suicide on the night between July 28 and 29, 1993, the year of the attacks in Rome and Milan, in prison in 1988.
He was also mentioned by the collaborator Santino Di Matteo, father of the young Giuseppe, who was murdered by the mafia, who reconstructed a alleged negotiation for the recovery of stolen artworks through Paolo Bellini. “I remember one day Antonino Gioè came to my house with this Paolo Bellini, who I understood was one of the services,” said Di Matteo, testifying on June 12, 2014, in the trial on the alleged negotiation between the State and the mafia. “I offered him a coffee, then they went to Gioè’s house. I later learned that Bellini and Gioè discussed an agreement for the recovery of a painting in exchange for Bellini’s intervention to soften prison conditions and influence some trials”.
