Caltanissetta prosecutors have ordered six searches in the investigation into alleged misdirection of the Via D'Amelio bombing inquiry and the disappearance of Paolo Borsellino's red notebook. The move is a new evidence-gathering step in one of the most consequential unresolved institutional questions surrounding the judge's killing.
ANSA reported that ROS carabinieri executed the warrants on Thursday morning in the province of Rome. The searches covered, among other premises, locations available to former police chief Gianni De Gennaro, justice collaborator Salvatore Contorno, De Gennaro collaborator Donatella Peruzzi, protection officer Massimo Carnicelli, and former police inspector Francesco Pacetto.
The investigation, coordinated by prosecutor Salvatore De Luca, seeks to clarify possible responsibilities of members of state bodies who were subordinate to Arnaldo La Barbera, the former head of Palermo's mobile squad. Its stated scope is the alleged diversion of the Via D'Amelio investigation and the loss of Borsellino's red notebook. That focus matters because the prosecutors are pursuing a concrete evidentiary action rather than leaving a historic public question at the level of broad speculation.
The meaning of the searches, however, has clear limits. A search warrant is an investigative tool to examine a lead; it does not by itself establish criminal responsibility. The supplied reporting does not disclose the detailed legal grounds for the warrants, what investigators were seeking, or what may have been obtained. It also does not state the legal status of the people whose premises were searched, or provide full responses from prosecutors, those involved, or their lawyers.
For now, the material development is the opening of a further fact-finding phase. Any assessment of individual responsibility must depend on the judicial documents and the results of the work ordered by the Caltanissetta prosecutor's office.
Sources
- ANSA · Top news · Source date: 2026-11-12
- la Repubblica · Source date: 2026-11-12
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