”My name is Gioacchino Genchi. I’m 49 years old. I’m the greatest scandal in the history of the Republic. Up until a year ago, I was an ordinary citizen, a functionary with the Police who had worked for more than 20 years in the most important Italian investigations: from Palermo to Milan, from Catanzaro to Catania, from Locri to Siderno, to Reggio Calabria; in the trials involving the mafia, murders, organised crime, the white collar crimes; the kidnapping of Silvia Melis and many, many other investigations, before the explosion of the “Genchi case”. It’s a question of one of the greatest pantomimes of this system, with which they tried to block an investigation, the one by the Catanzaro Public prosecutor Luigi De Magistris, but not just that, they prevented magistrates from doing investigations into other magistrates and then in the end, they tried to do away with me. They tried to prevent me from continuing to give a contribution that I was giving to the magistrates of Palermo Caltanissetta, Catania, Catanzaro, Rome and Milan in important investigations. All that was so as to prevent this work from arriving once and for all to identify the real instigators of those slaughters, and probably the ones who executed the slaughters who are quite probably different from those who have been identified up until now. This work started with Giovanni Falcone, and unfortunately, oh dear, it continued with the investigations of the Capaci slaughter, in which Falcone was killed and then with the slaughter in Via d’Amelio.
I am on the river bank and basically I see the corpse of my enemy passing by. Because the things that I said and wrote seventeen years ago are coming to pass. 17 years ago I did not agree with the investigation choices that led to the false closing of the investigations of Via d’Amelio with the turncoat Scarantino. I adopted really severe positions, I wrote down what my position was about the moral instigators of those slaughters and also about those who carried out the actions. Now the facts are showing me to have been right.
The investigations that were done in 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997 in Palermo in the mafia investigations about Dell’Utri, about Berlusconi, about the birth of Fininvest led us to acquire incontrovertible elements about what happened in Italy at the beginning of the 1990s, about the end of the First Republic and about how the political class created new balancing positions, those new leaders, those new parties, or rather that new party that had to make it possible to, according to an authoritative saying coined by Tommasi di Lampedusa in “The Leopard”: ‘if we want everything to stay the same everything must change’. There was the need to change everything , because the traditional parties of the first Republic had made themselves unpresentable. They were in the eye of the cyclone not just for “Clean Hands” for the judicial investigations, for the arrests that every day saw the beheading and incarceration of the political leaders belonging to that entrepreneurial world that that politics had bankrolled. No. Because the people started to rebel against that political class and thus there was a progressive erosion of trust, a delegitimization of that political class and with this delegitimization , that was born with “Clean Hands”, there was the addition of another strong delegitimization by the mafia, by that mafia that had supported the Christian Democrats, who up until 1987 started to take the bill to the Christian Democrats.
The Second Republic was born at the moment that in the ashes of the First Republic, these reference people for Cosa Nostra started to look for new men, started to look in the wreckage, among the debris of that First Republic that had burned out, those people who, even because they already knew the entrepreneurial field, as a probable investment of economic and financial resources of the mafia, had given a certain amount of trust.

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