Justice for a decent person

Attilio Manca was found dead February 12, 2004 at her home in Viterbo. The cause of his death was initially considered an overdose of heroin. The case was then stored as a suicide. Attilio 's mother , Angela , and his entire family has never believed the official version . As was noted in 2003, Bernardo Provenzano went to Marseille for surgery on the prostate. Just at that period Attilio was in Marseille. According to the family he was to operate the mafia boss , or otherwise to assist the operation. At that time it was , inter alia, one of the few urologists to know how to perform an intervention with a different technique from the traditional " cut ." The investigations of the Prosecutor of Viterbo were sketchy , so much so that in 2006 the investigation was reopened in 2008 and was placed a further supplementary investigation . A few weeks ago came the archives for five of the six suspects . The Mafia disappears investigation , there are only accusations by a Roman girl from the sale of narcotics. In 2012 was founded the Anaam ( Association of Friends of Attilio Manca ) which has among its objectives to finally find out the truth about a story that raises disturbing questions about our recent history.
Angela is missing , seem to be various tests that demonstrate the fact that his son Attilio did not commit suicide but was murdered . How do you explain the fact that so far the courts have always held the opposite?

Instead of investigating preferred to look the other way . I do not want to think there is collusion , but I think there is a lot of superficiality and perhaps inability to treat a case of high- Mafia. Maybe they did not know what to do but there are too many things that they did and that they would not do voluntarily . I can not explain their behavior, can not explain it as well as our legal Fabio Repici .

Meanwhile, a few weeks ago you have stored the positions of five suspects . There is only one investigation for the sale of drugs, but the mafia has disappeared from the investigation . Why is she so convinced that instead the death of his son has to do with the Cosa Nostra ?

Yes , the Mafia has disappeared altogether. My son was killed on 12 February and already the 15th, the day after the funeral , we were convinced that it was a murder. We immediately made ​​a complaint to these five characters of Barcelona that we think they had a suspicious attitude . These people have never been questioned . One of them , Angel Mushroom, was also convicted of extortion , but no one has ever asked questions. Shamefully , the police told us that even they did not know how to find it because they did not have his phone number. Too bad that Porky was managing a games room , how can that had neither a cell phone or a landline ?

On the body of Attilio were found several bruises , how are they justified?

There is an amazing inconsistency between the report that made the 118 doctor who has found the body of Attilio and the autopsy of Dr. Ranaletta , among other things, the wife of the primary head of the department of Urology Hospital of Belcolle Viterbo. The doctor found that the 118 has the face of Attilio had been heavily compressed on the bed, especially various bruises on his wrists and feet, and a pool of blood on the floor. The autopsy did not find either instead or bruising and compression of the face in spite of the photos clearly showed a deviated septum .

What did they say when they reported the death of his son ?

I was told that it was an aneurysm , then two days later when I heard the overdose . The head of the hospital took us around talking aneurysm . The only one who knew from the first moment that it was drug was the father of Hugh missing and this seems strange, very strange.

There are also many doubts on the syringes , according to the prosecutor's office in Viterbo , Attilio he used to do drugs ...

For one thing they never found the materials required for the preparation of heroin. After our insistence was made, after 8 years , an examination on the syringes . Examination that does not reveal any trace of Attilio . Not to mention that have been found with the cap on and the holes were on the left arm of Attilio . What absurd because he was left-handed .

And after the results of those tests , nothing has changed ?

Nothing has changed , they remained confident in their belief that they were made from the first moment . Then there is another very strange thing : the last phone call between me and Attilio , dated 11 February, confirmed first by the police and then disappeared from the records . I could not understand why, and especially how it could disappear. Then they explained to me that the only ones able to clear a call from the Secret Service are tabulated .

Do you think that the death of his son are involved , along with the mafia , even the secret service or parts diverted state?

Being Provenzano can think of anything. Provenzano was protected by the state, by some law enforcement agencies and secret services diverted . He moved freely from Sicily to Marseilles and then in New York for treatment. It is evident that he had a very big protection .


Attilio Manca and Angela
He believes that Attilio has talked with someone for something that was not supposed to talk about?

Yes, I think so. After working Provenzano in Marseille , or at least have witnessed intervention, Attilio has confided in the Christmas holiday with a friend . After a week of his death the father of his best friend told us : " But is not that your child has visited Provenzano ? " . All this when nobody knew that Provenzano had prostate cancer . Unfortunately Attilio was involved in a much bigger game for him , that of the state - mafia negotiation .

Over the years he has never tried to contact the Anti-Mafia ?

Yes, we have tried to contact Piero Grasso , but he was turned away . Speaking with a reporter recognized the possibility that Attilio may have been killed but said he could not do surveys and we had to bring us the evidence. When it comes to state and mafia does not investigate almost anyone.

She first said that the magistrates of Viterbo have made ​​mistakes of inexperience . But here we are talking about the President of the Senate, former anti-Mafia prosecutor and judge of great experience . How do you explain your answer?

I believe that fat is a person who wants to live quietly. He is making a career and want to go ahead without disturbing anyone. He did not want to deal with an investigation uncomfortable that maybe he would create trouble. Maybe we will find ourselves in a few years the President of the Republic ...



Because she and her family have decided to entrust the case to Antonio Ingroia ?

It all started by accident. We met in a procession in memory of my son and asked him if he could help us . He told me that soon would become a lawyer and that would help us willingly . Ingroia join Repici , which is great . Ingroia But I think it can give us a big hand because it knows the facts related to the negotiation and Provenzano .

But Ingroia within a year and a half has passed since pm in Palermo political leader and now to a lawyer. Do you really think is the right man ?

I think so . However much they can attack , destroy it and this because they fear him . Ingroia is a straight and honest person and I hope to be able to come out well all the difficulties . And there will be trouble because he's certainly not give you peace. They do so : delegitimize , isolate and transfer . In Barcelona each time a captain of the police approached us was transferred .

In Barcelona was also a fugitive Nitto Santapaolas . What is the climate towards your family?

A part hostile to us , because we keep talking about . They believe that we infanghiamo the city because we seek the truth . Barcelona is at the center of the strategies of the Cosa Nostra , had a role in the Capaci massacre . We looked bad because we discovered things that ten years ago, nobody knew . And then there's another part that goes about his business and does not say anything because he is afraid . We are very isolated .

What is the institution that has disappointed and what is instead of what you trust more?

I trust some associations such as Don Ciotti , there has always been close . Policy certainly do not trust . Some political approach to interest then maybe go away . I received great disappointment from politics. At first I helped Sonia Alfano, tell the truth, but then was absorbed by other commitments. The biggest disappointment has given me the city of Barcelona.

Do you think that will change anything and that the truth will come out ?

Our goal is to reopen the investigation and are confident that we will succeed.

*article published in Italian on affaritaliani.it