Prosecutors in Florence have opened an investigation into the information leak leading to the publication of an article in newspaper La Stampa last month. The article concerned the investigations conducted by magistrates in the Tuscan capital into those behind the 1993 massacres. The article reported that the local anti-mafia squad are looking into the possibility that Marcello Dell’Utri and Mafia bosses Giuseppe and Filippo Graviano were in Rome at the same time, just days before the failed attempt at the Olympic Stadium in January 1994.

The Graviano brothers were on the run from the police at that time and were travelling on papers in the names of Salvatore Spataro and Filippo Mango. They were arrested a few days later in Milan. Checks being made with hotels and airlines, by the Florence Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate, were to verify facts recounted by Mafia informant Gaspare Spatuzza about a possible meeting between the Mafia bosses (convicted for the massacres in Rome, Florence and Milan) and the current PDL senator Dell’Utri (who was given seven years on appeal for Mafia association).