Daughter of convicted Palermo boss repudiates mafia roots

IMG title=”” alt=”” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/wpid-d1d8ebe273cfff99e3d47404022fc5692.jpg” IMG class=hide alt=”Daughter of convicted Palermo boss repudiates mafia roots” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/wpid-d1d8ebe273cfff99e3d47404022fc5692.jpg” (ANSA) – Rome, February 13 – The daughter of a former Sicilian Cosa Nostra boss on Thursday rejected her mafia roots and decided to collaborate with the judiciary in what a member of the Senate’s anti-mafia commission described as an example to be followed. “I no longer want to be part of the Mafia, why should I? Just because my father is a Mafia boss?” said Giovanna Galatolo, daughter of the former head of Palermo’s Acquasanta mafia clan, Enzo Galatolo, who is serving a life sentence for the 1982 assassination of army General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa in Palermo. P”No, I’m not having it. I want to devote myself entirely to my daughter,” she told prosecutors in the trial of Angelo Galatolo and Franco Mineo, a former member of Sicily’s regional parliament./PPMineo faces various charges in connection with his alleged role as frontman for Galatolo in exchange for votes. Giovanna also told investigators her father ran the clan from prison./PP”He used conventional signs to tell us what we had to do,” she said. Her decision to act as a police informant was hailed by Democratic Party (PD) Senator Giuseppe Lumia, a member of the Senate’s anti-mafia commission. “Mafia women follow the example of Carmela Iuculano, Giusy Vitale and now Giovanna Galatolo,” he said./PP”To repudiate their mafia membership means to become free women. A mass defection by women could do unquantifiable damage to the Cosa Nostra”./PIMG id=mediaViewer title=”” alt=”” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/wpid-trasp77.gif”ALL RIGHTS RESERVED