Gaspare Spatuzza, perpetrator of the Cosa Nostra attacks in 1992 and 1993 and murderer of a child who was dissolved in acidhas remained released after 26 years in prison. After receiving several life sentences, the hitman collaborated with Justice revealing secrets of the sicilian mafia.

Now, at 58 years old, you can enjoy total freedomwithout the limitations of the house arrest to which he has been subjected since 2014 for the benefits of his judicial collaboration, although he must comply with some rules, such as not relating to people with a criminal record and not leaving his place of residence without authorization, as revealed by the diary ‘Corriere della Sera‘.

Thus concludes his sentences to life imprisonment for the bombs that exploded in Rome, Florence and Milan the summer of 1993 and which caused 10 deaths and more than 50 injuries. Also for him murder of Father Pino Puglisi on September 15, 1993 and the sentence to 12 years in prison for the kidnapping of a 12 year old boyson of the repentant Santino Di Matteo, who was imprisoned for more than two years and who was later murdered and dissolved in acid by his jailers, in one of the cruelest pages of this mafia.

Known as “‘u tignusu” (the bald one) Spatuzza inherited the leadership of the Brancaccio clan of Palermo on the recommendation of the leaders of Cosa Nostra, including the then “boss of bosses”, Matteo Messina Denarorecently arrested after 30 years on the run.

Spatuzza was arrested in July 1997 and spent 11 years in isolation, until in 2008 he decided to speak to the magistrates and confessed to having been one of the perpetrators of the attacks for which he had already been convicted, but also to having participated in those that they ended their lives with the anti-mafia judges Giovani Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, his wife and five escorts in 1992. As a collaborator of Justice, he also pointed to Messina Denaro as the organizer of the attacks.

Some of his statements in the more than 15 trials in which he has testified were highly controversial, such as when accused Silvio Berlusconi and his right-hand man, Marcello Dell’Utri, to maintain agreements with the Graviano brothers, heads of one of the most powerful families of the Sicilian mafia, at the time of the birth of Forza Italia.

According to his defense, Spatuzza, who will turn 59 in a month, in addition to his “repentance“He has experienced a religious conversion that has led him to carry out “acts of reparation and social solidarity, such as asking for forgiveness from the victims, voluntary work, the invitation to collaborate addressed to all the gangsters”.