Lies are like an avalanche: the more they roll, the bigger they become. And if it concerns those who are no longer alive, it can reach unlimited dimensions. Then add that in the age of social media, video goes unchecked with amplified power and you enter the Fatto Daily & Co. hoax circus, where the extraordinary spectacle is the tug of war – or rather the toga – between Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino over career separation. Thus, thanks to the newspaper directed by Travaglio, we find that Borsellino in an interview with the Samarcanda program on May 23, 1991 had taken a categorical stance: “Separating careers means violating the unity of the judiciary. The prosecutor must be able to carry out his functions without being accountable to political power”. An interview is considered proof of Meloni’s betrayal of his mentor Borsellino. Too bad it’s a lie. And not only because, as Il Dubbio first discovered, the judge never said these words, but especially because Borsellino was never present in that day’s episode, which was entirely devoted to the topic of medical malpractice. There was also an appearance in the same program, but it occurred on 1 December ’88 when, while being interviewed by Sandro Ruotolo, the judge spoke about the importance of anti-mafia groups; about the definition of the mafia in the late 80s compared to the 70s; conversion and relations with Sicily. There was no mention of career separation, a topic Borsellino apparently never addressed publicly. But the lies spread by Facts have been repeated in various ways by journalists and politicians who have made themselves megaphones of lies. From Gruber to Otto e mezzo last November 3, Travaglio himself repeated it live on TV, adding an emphatic comment: “Borsellino is radically against the separation of careers”. The same story was repeated by Peter Gomez two days later on Restart on Rai3. On November 6, Formigli in PiazzaPulita dedicated an editorial to the coined phrase. Floris reread it on November 8 at DiMartedì and on the same stage Alessandro Di Battista used Borsellino’s false statement for his monologue.
But this is not the only hoax circulating. Il Fatto wrote that Falcone gave an interview to Repubblica on 25 January 1992, in which he stated: “I am afraid that, through this separation, we want to subordinate the investigative judiciary to the executive. This is unacceptable”. This is also a trick. Because, if you search the archives of the newspaper that Scalfari founded, the interview doesn’t exist. This is fake news that was also repeated on TV on La7 by Gratteri. Just given without fear of contradiction. Yes, there was an interview in La Repubblica on October 3, 1991 in which Falcone said: “The system of accusations starts from the assumption of the public prosecutor who collects and coordinates the elements of evidence that will be obtained during the trial, where he represents one of the parties to the trial (…) And in the trial he must not have any relationship with the judge and not be, as he is now, a kind of para-judge. The judge, in this framework, appears as a neutral person, a figure who is not involved, above the parties. the fact that, with integrated education and careers, with interchangeable roles and functions, judges and prosecutors are, in fact, indistinguishable from each other. The Executive wants to confuse the differentiation of roles and specialization of prosecutors with very different institutional issues”. Clear?
And if you still haven’t, just pick up Giovanni Falcone’s volume, Interventions and Proposals, 1982-1992 which says: “I had the painful realization that managing the career of judge public prosecutors was no longer possible
identical to a judge, the functions and, therefore, talents, mental habits, necessary professional skills are different: prosecutor’s investigator, judge’s dispute referee”.
