Ferdinando Imposimato

Ferdinando Imposimato in 2016

Ferdinando Imposimato (1936 – 2018) was an Italian magistrate, lawyer, poliician, and the honorary president of the Supreme Court of Italy.

Quotes

• In reality, I was working with Vittorio Occorsio on several cases of kidnapping for ransom, including the Danesi kidnapping, the Ortolani kidnapping, the Andreuzzi kidnapping, [the kidnapping] Francisci kidnapping, and I remember perfectly well that a few days earlier he had asked me to issue several arrest warrants against the defendants; one of these defendants was a member of the P2 Lodge. He had also identified links between kidnappers, black terrorists, and members of the P2 Lodge, and had expressed his concerns. He had a great deal of experience because he had already investigated part of the trial for the Piazza Fontana massacre. At first, he had been misled, unfortunately by the secret services, but then he had got back on the right track. I also remember that on the morning he was killed, half an hour before the murder, I called him to ask his opinion on a request for provisional release that had been submitted by a defendant who was a member of P2, and he told me that he would express a negative opinion.
  • From the TV program La notte della Repubblica, Rai 2, 24 January 1990

• (Regarding Antonio Ingroia's political candidacy}} Fairness is the first rule that a magistrate must follow. In the specific case of the former deputy prosecutor of Palermo, with an investigation involving the mafia such as the one he has just left behind, the situation is even more delicate. [...] The Sicilian magistrate's decision not only raises suspicions that the entire operation was merely a ploy to enter politics, but also risks undermining the credibility of the entire team of people who worked with him.
  • From an interview of Paola Alagia, Ingroia? Un caso grave, Lettera 43.it, 21 December 2012

• The KGB was directly involved in the kidnapping of Moro. Cossiga and Andreotti knew where he was being held prisoner, but prevented General Dalla Chiesa from intervening. Falcone and Borsellino? The Gladio and the CIA were involved in those incidents. [...] The CIA was the armed wing of this policy, which sought by all means to eliminate a figure who jeopardized the security of the Western bloc and could cause communists to infiltrate the Italian government. Moreover, the CIA controlled the Italian secret services, as Maletti [former SISDE general] has publicly admitted. The CIA financed them with a budget of $500 million per year. [...] Of course, it also financed Gladio. The CIA even bought the Gladio base in Sardinia [the Capo Marrargiu training center]. [...] Yes, Cossiga and Andreotti knew. There is a document dated March 2, 1978, which I only learned about 25 years later and which I publish in my book as proof. Dalla Chiesa also learned of Moro's place of imprisonment and, from early April, wanted to intervene to free him. When the base in Via Gradoli was burned down, it was done precisely to prevent Dalla Chiesa from intervening. The general was ordered to abandon the camp, then he talked about it with the journalist Mino Pecorelli, who wrote about it. Both knew and both were killed.
  • Da Moro a Falcone, da Bilderberg ad Andreotti, dal Kgb alla Cia. Le verità di Imposimato sulle stragi, Affaritaliani.it, 31 May 2013

• I am not a member of the M5S, but I find the attacks on Grillo exaggerated and unfair. He has denounced the paralysis and impotence of Parliament, which cannot be denied. Parliament, as the body that passes laws for the common good, does not actually exist. This is a bitter reality, not an insult to Parliament. Laura Boldrini should not take offense, she should take note. I would like to know what laws Parliament has passed in its first few months! And what laws it is discussing that affect young people and employment. None! The fake law that sought resources by repealing public funding of political parties is not due to come into force until 2017! Shameful!
  • Il Parlamento non esiste, Beppegrillo.it, 13 June 2013

• The murder of Moro was carried out by the Red Brigades, but also and above all at the behest of Giulio Andreotti, Francesco Cossiga and Undersecretary w:it:Nicola Lettieri.
  • Ferdinando Imposimato: "Aldo Moro ucciso dalle Br per volere di Giulio Andreotti, Francesco Cossiga e Nicola Lettieri", HuffingtonPost.it, 10 July 2013

• President Napolitano, democracy is majority rule that respects the rights of the opposition, not tyranny of the majority that disregards the opposition, as is currently the case. Among the functions of the President of the Republic provided for in Article 87 of the Constitution, there is no provision for accusing the opposition of sectarianism. I thank the M5S for its fair and responsible opposition and its battles in defense of equal social rights, decent work, law enforcement, the independence of the judiciary, public education, and political ethics.
  • From a post in the official Facebook profle, 19 September 2014

Undated

• The history of massacres originates in the events that took place at the end of the Second World War with the clash between two opposing blocs. [...] Our country, in the Yalta partition, became a kind of American colony, a nation with limited sovereignty due to interference from overseas. [...] New allies gathered around the hegemonic interests of the USA, happy to endorse or implement the strategy of tension in Italy. Alongside the OSS, the CIA, and the secret services, there were Ordine Nuovo, republicans, the Christian Democratic right, Vatican hierarchies, American Freemasonry, the Propaganda 2 lodge, part of the armed forces and the Interior Ministry apparatus, which were sometimes joined by openly criminal organizations such as the Mafia, Camorra, 'ndrangheta and Banda della Magliana.
  • La repubblica delle stragi impunite

Quotes about

Imposimato surprised me a little in the sense that I didn't think he had all these sympathies. Imposimato is certainly very likeable, he's Neapolitan, also a little older, I think he's 77, he's been a member of parliament three times, if I'm not mistaken, also on the left, in the former PCI (Italian Communist Party) and then had a period that I frankly did not understand and which, in my opinion, denotes a bit of mental confusion, when he ran with the socialists, with the Sdi (Italian Socialist Democratic Party), therefore the post-Craxi socialists, but they were still very much Craxi supporters, and I remember that in that campaign alongside Enrico Manca, Craxi's son, Boselli, he indulged in some truly unpleasant remarks about the Mani Pulite pool, Borrelli, and Di Pietro, perhaps to stir up the revanchist audience that still considered Craxi a victim of evil judges. For a magistrate like him, who had conducted important investigations in Rome on terrorism, the Magliana Gang, etc., it was something that did him no credit.

• • Marco Travaglio, Passaparola - Gli impresentabili al Quirinale, beppegrillo.it, 15 April 2013

Bibliography

• Ferdinando Imposimato, La repubblica delle stragi impunite, Newton Compton, Roma, 2013. ISBN 978-88-541-5499-5

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