Il Divo Page #4

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I don't believe in chance,

I believe in the will of God.

But you should believe in chance!

Well, Premier,

is it by chance that the families

of assassination victims hate you?

Dalla Chiesa's son hates you.

He says that you instigated

his father's murder.

Aldo Moro's wife hates you

and holds you responsible

for her husband's death.

Does banker Roberto Calvi's wife

hate you by chance?

She said you threatened

then ordered Calvi's murder.

She says the Vatican Bank

didn't kill him, but two people:

Andreotti and Cosentino,

who's also dead now.

And I wonder, is it by chance

that you were Interior Minister

when the bandit Pisciotta was killed

with a poisoned coffee?

Maybe Pisciotta could have revealed

the instigators of Giuliano's murder.

Was banker Michele Sindona killed

in the same way by chance?

He too could have made some

uncomfortable disclosures in prison.

Is it by chance that everyone says

you repeatedly protected Sindona?

Is it by chance that Evangelisti,

your deputy,

met Sindona when he was on the run,

at a toy shop in New York?

Is it by chance that

the Magistrate Viola says:

If you hadn't protected Sindona,

the Ambrosoli crime

wouldn't have happened?

Furthermore,

you jot down everything scrupulously

in your diary, so is it by chance

that you forgot to write

about the Ambrosoli crime?

Is it by chance that from '76-'79,

when you were Premier,

all the secret service chiefs were

members of the P2 Masonic lodge?

Is it by chance that in your frequent

meetings with P2 head, Licio Gelli,

you talked exclusively about

South American desaparecidos?

That's what you said:

Just friendly chit-chat.

Finally, is it by chance that

you've been dragged into

nearly every scandal

that's afflicted this country?

And I'm omitting to mention all the

suspects that allege your Mafia links

Basically, as Montanelli said:

It's one or the other.

You're either the most cunning

criminal in the country

because you never got caught

or you're the most persecuted man

in the history of Italy.

So I'm asking:

Are all these coincidences

the fruit of chance

or the will of God?

Is it by chance that the influential

newspaper you founded

was once saved by the Premier?

That Premier was me.

Your newspaper almost fell

into the hands of Silvio Berlusconi,

an employer you wouldn't have liked.

I stopped it from happening.

Also thanks to the mediation

of the much-reviled Ciarrapico.

I allowed you to regain

your independence and freedom.

Independence and freedom

which allows you

to ask me impudent,

specious questions.

It's thanks to me that you can

be so arrogant,

presumptuous and distrustful

towards me.

That's not the case...

The situation was

a bit more complicated.

See? You're quite perspicacious,

you've worked it out for yourself.

The situation was

a bit more complicated.

But that doesn't just apply to

your story, it applies to mine too.

TOTO' RIINA. MAFIA BOSS

OF BOSSES alias "THE BEAST"

Now I'll tell you everything,

but hold on to your seats

because it's all linked,

everything is connected.

I repeat:

Hold on to your seats.

GIANCARLO CASELLI

ATTORNEY GENERAL OF PALERMO

Pippo Calo, Toto Riina

and Francesco Madonia

made use of Licio Gelli

for their investments.

Some of this money was invested

in the Vatican Bank

where Gelli acted as banker

for the group.

Sindona was banker

for the previous Mafia bosses:

Stefano Bontate

and Salvatore Inzerillo...

Yes, I met Licio Gelli

and Michele Sindona.

Well-mannered, respectful people.

Licio Gelli had a mattress shop near

the Christian Democrat headquarters.

Pippo Calo killed

several relatives of mine,

but at one time

we were great friends.

Roberto Calvi appropriated

a substantial sum

belonging to Gelli and Calo.

Calvi's suicide was staged.

Calvi was strangled

by Francesco Di Carlo,

on Pippo Calo's orders.

Pippo Calo was a very important man

in Cosa Nostra,

he's capable of using his brain,

he was Cosa Nostra's man in Rome.

He had links

with Bontate, then with Riina,

with the Camorra, with the Vatican,

with the Secret Services,

with the P2 and the Magliana Gang.

- If Calo talked...

- If Calo talked...

he'd die after saying

good morning.

On the subject of Moro,

Pippo Calo told Bontate:

"Don't you get it? His fellow

party members don't want him freed."

In 1983, Badalamenti told me there

were secrets about Moro's kidnapping.

Secrets that troubled

the Honourable Mr. Andreotti.

Andreotti was worried

they could leak out.

Only two people knew

about these secrets:

General Dalla Chiesa

and Mino Pecorelli, the journalist.

Badalamenti told me that although

we'd killed Pecorelli,

it was a political killing

commissioned by the Salvo cousins

as a favour to Andreotti.

When Dalla Chiesa was murdered,

Badalamenti said:

"They sent him to Palermo

to get rid of him.

He hadn't done anything

in Sicily

to justify all that hate

towards him."

The Pecorelli and Dalla Chiesa cases

are linked, gentlemen.

The government wouldn't give Dalla

Chiesa special anti-Mafia powers.

When Dalla Chiesa was killed,

they blamed the Mafia.

Some time after, I had a meeting

with Lima and Nino Salvo.

If Dalla Chiesa was already powerless

on all levels, why kill him?

For some politicians, he'd have been

more dangerous in retirement.

We're the ones who'll be f***ed

for a long time to come.

Badalamenti told me he'd met up

with Andreotti in Rome,

to thank him for his concern

over a trial regarding Filippo Rimi,

Badalamenti's brother-in-law.

Badalamenti told me that Andreotti

congratulated him, saying:

"Men like you..."

Men like you... are needed on every

street in Italy.

BADALAMENTI'S ATTORNEY

It was said by Ciro Varga

of the Vallelunga family,

Cataldo Terminio

of the San Cataldo family,

and Salvatore Ferrero

of the Caltanisetta family that...

Giulio, I need to talk to you

in private.

...the Honourable Mr Lima

was Andreotti's contact

for everything that concerned

Cosa Nostra,

especially the trials.

Sebastiano Nardo told me

that Andreotti was "pricked",

he was initiated,

a "man of honour".

Bontate told me that Andreotti

went to Palermo to meet him,

Lima, the Salvo cousins

and the Honourable Mr Nicoletti.

It was between spring

and summer of '79.

The meeting took place

on a hunting reserve

and Bontate complained to Andreotti

about the

Honourable Mr Mattarella's behaviour,

who wasn't lending a helping hand

to the Mafia anymore.

There was a second meeting

some months after Mattarella's death.

We're in charge of Sicily

and if you don't want

the D.C. Wiped out,

you'd better do as we say.

Otherwise we won't just

take away the Sicilian votes,

but those from Reggio Calabria

and all Southern Italy too.

You'll only have the North,

where they all vote Communist.

Take our votes.

And don't get any ideas about

special measures or laws

or there'll be other

serious incidents.

But I'd point out that after '87,

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