Maurizio Abbatino

thumb|Maurizio Abbatino Maurizio Abbatino (born 19 July 1954) is a former Italian criminal, one of the original bosses of the Banda della Magliana, an Italian criminal organization based in the city of Rome, particularly active throughout the late 1970s until the early 1990s. He became a pentito, a collaborator with justice after his arrest in 1992. Quotes (About Carminati) He was cold, polished. The coldest and most polished of us all. And the one with the greatest power of attraction. With each acquittal, Carminati's power grew. He was fortunate enough to enjoy protection from above and to be charged with the murder of the journalist Mino Pecorelli along with Giulio Andreotti. [...] At a certain point, I stopped, up to the point where I had the evidence. I didn't go any further. I couldn't. But the story of the Magliana gang is much more complex. And it has much more to do with the P2 than has come to light. You should bear in mind that every now and then, General Santovito, the former head of SISMI, would send his regards to me. I had never even met him. [...] At a certain point, I don't know if it was because of our ability to kill and our control of the area, but we were respected by the deviant powers and by certain politicians, who were very influential at the time. And if 'Mafia Capitale', as it was renamed, came to light when everyone already knew about it and the scandal was bound to explode, someone had covered for them. Carminati knew full well that they would arrest him. From an interview released to Il Fatto Quotidiano, reported in "Carminati ci vuole morti ma noi potremmo aiutare i servizi contro l'Isis", Ilgiornale.it, 23 December 2015. We had almost all the lawyers in Rome at our disposal, as well as doctors, and even a few politicians, why not? There was a time when we would drive in with government vehicles, park under the courthouse, and unload furs and antiques. We had a contract with a senior court clerk who told us that the judges were corrupt… and the trials went the way we wanted. Pino Rinaldi, Intervista a Maurizio Abbatino, Chi l'ha visto, Rai 3, 7 November 2005. There is still a lot of talk about the gang today, even though at the time there were other organisations, such as ON and the P2, which now seem to have been forgotten. It seems that the Magliana gang has become a dumping ground for everything that people can't or don't want to understand. Quoted in Massimiliano De Santis, Carlo Durante, I segreti della Banda della Magliana, La Storia siamo noi, n. 843. (About Carminati) He was very close to Danilo Abbruciati and had unrestricted access to the Ministry of Health, where the weapons depot was located. From those basements, Carminati took a MAB submachine gun, with its serial number worn away and its stock handcrafted. It was the same submachine gun that was found in January 1981, a few months after the Bologna massacre, in a suitcase on the Taranto–Milan train. The contents of that suitcase were intended to mislead the investigation into the bombing, leading it down a foreign trail. La verità del Freddo: "Dalla Magliana fino a Mafia Capitale, Carminati c'è sempre", roma.repubblica.it, 23 April 2017. External links Category:1954 births Category:Living people Category:People charged with crimes