Pietro Grasso | |
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 Grasso in 2012 | |
| President of the Senate of the Republic | |
| In office 16 March 2013 – 22 March 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Renato Schifani |
| Succeeded by | Elisabetta Casellati |
| Acting President of Italy | |
| In office 14 January 2015 – 3 February 2015 | |
| Prime Minister | Matteo Renzi |
| Preceded by | Giorgio Napolitano |
| Succeeded by | Sergio Mattarella |
| Member of theSenate of the Republic | |
| In office 15 March 2013 – 12 October 2022 | |
| Constituency | Lazio(2013–2018) Sicily(2018–2022) |
| National Antimafia Prosecutor | |
| In office 11 October 2005 – 27 December 2012 | |
| Preceded by | Pierluigi Vigna |
| Succeeded by | Giusto Sciacchitano |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1945-01-01)1 January 1945 (age 80) |
| Political party | PD(2013–2017) Independent(since 2018) |
| Other political affiliations | LeU(2017–2022) |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 1 son |
| Alma mater | University of Palermo |
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Pietro Grasso (Italian pronunciation:[ˈpjɛːtroˈɡrasso]; born 1 January 1945), also known asPiero Grasso,[1] is an Italian anti-mafia magistrate and politician who served asPresident of the Senate from 2013 to 2018.[2]
Grasso became the ActingPresident of Italy on 14 January 2015, upon the resignation ofGiorgio Napolitano. He was the president until the swearing in ofSergio Mattarella on 3 February.
In 1984 he was appointed associate judge in the firstmaxiprocesso (aportmanteau of theItalian words formaximum andtrial) of theSicilian Mafia (10 February 1986 – 10 December 1987), with 475 defendants. Pietro Grasso, next to the presiding judge Alfonso Giordano, was author of the judgment (over 8,000 pages) that inflicted 19 life sentences and more than 2,600 years in prison.
At the end of themaxiprocesso, Grasso was appointed consultant to the Anti-Mafia Commission, at the head of Gerardo Chiaromonte first and then byLuciano Violante. In 1991 he was appointed adviser to the criminal affairs department of the Ministry of Justice, whose minister was Claudio Martelli, whom he namedGiovanni Falcone, and member of the Central Commission for the repentant. He was then replaced in his role, until he was appointed deputy prosecutor at the National Anti-Mafia Directorate (led byPier Luigi Vigna), applied in the Procure ofPalermo andFlorence, where he supervised and coordinated the investigations on the massacres of 1992 and 1993.
InPalermo by the PublicProsecutor in August 1999, under his direction, from 2000 to 2004, 1,779 people were arrested for crimes of mafia fugitives and 13, which were included in the 30 most dangerous. During the same period, the prosecutor of Palermo scored 380 life sentences and hundreds of sentences about a total of thousands of years in prison.
On 11 October 2005 he was appointed National Antimafia Prosecutor, succeedingPierluigi Vigna, who left office in August 2005 having reached the retirement age, while he was still head of the prosecutor of Palermo. His appointment was at the center of bitter controversy in judicial and political, as it was very likely the appointment of the Prosecutor at the Court of Palermo Gian Carlo Caselli. However, theBerlusconi III Cabinet, in the person of Senator Luigi Bobbio (National Alliance), introduced an amendment to the delegation of the reform of the judicial system (the so-called "Reform Castelli"). According to the wording of the amendment, Caselli could no longer be appointed national anti-Mafia prosecutor for exceeding the age limit. The Constitutional Court, following the appointment of Peter Grasso as a new national anti-Mafia prosecutor, declared illegal the decision that the judge had ruled Gian Carlo Caselli from the competition.
On 11 April 2006 help with his work, after years of investigation, the capture ofBernardo Provenzano on the farm,Montagna dei cavalli inCorleone, hiding from 9 May 1963. On 18 September 2006 the District Anti-Mafia Directorate ofCatanzaro, with support from the National Prosecution led by national prosecutor Grasso, concludes a two-year on the action of certain mafias ofVibo Valentia, who had put his hands on his holiday parks the coast. The gangs in question are The Rose ofTropea and that of Mancuso Limbadi that ricavavano huge profits from the control of contracts for the construction and supply of holiday villages in the area of Catanzaro. Operation Odyssey ends with 41 cases of custody. The natural expiration of the first term to the DNA was confirmed by the Supreme Judicial Council for a second term, this time without any controversy and consensus.
From September 2012 to Rai History in 12 episodes, Pietro Grasso leads "Lessons Mafia", a project of legal education, dedicated to the younger generations to explain all the secrets of Cosa Nostra. The program is inspired by the lessons mafia devised in 1992 by the Director of TG2 Alberto La Volpe withGiovanni Falcone, one of the last initiatives of the magistrate fromPalermo crushed by the attack of Capaci. Twenty years later, solicited in this regard, Grasso agreed to go back to tell young people about the Mafia.Mafia lessons digs into the mafia system and returns an x-ray done of names, rules, stories, web of complicity, plots, mystery, ambiguity. In the first episode explained how the dome formed Mafia.
On 27 December 2012, Grasso requested leave of absence from the CSM, and the next day told the press that he intended to stand for election with the centre-leftDemocratic Party in the2013 Italian general election. On 8 January 2013, the national leadership of the Democratic Party candidate Pietro Grasso was elected in theItalian Senate as a candidate of the list PD for theLazio region.[3]
In March, following the general election, along with many other colleagues in theItalian Parliament, Grasso joined the project "starts again in the future" by signing the petition that aims to review the anti-corruption law by changing the norm on the exchange-electoral political mafia within the first hundred days of parliamentary activity.[4]
On 16 March 2013 at 18:50 was electedPresident of the Senate by 137 votes, against 117 forRenato Schifani (PdL), the outgoing President. There was a fourth ballot runoff between the two most voted senators from the previous ballot, with 313 voters in total, including 52 blank and 7 nil.[5][6]
As President of the Senate, it was his responsibility to decide whether the Senate would declare itself as an injured part in an indictment againstBerlusconi. The former Prime Minister was accused of bribing majority senators to have them withdraw support from theProdi government. Grasso decided to go ahead against the advice of a Senate parliamentary committee, who voted 10 to 8 against the indictment.[7][8]
On 14 January 2015, on the resignation ofGiorgio Napolitano, Grasso became theActing President of the Italian Republic.[9] He served in that position until the swearing in ofSergio Mattarella on 3 February 2015.[10]
Grasso left theDemocratic Party on 26 October 2017, the same day thenew electoral law (colloquially known by the nicknameRosatellum bis) was approved definitively by the Senate.[11][12][13]
On 3 December 2017, Grasso was appointed leader ofFree and Equal (LeU), aleft-wing political alliance ofparties, formed by theDemocratic and Progressive Movement,Italian Left andPossible.[14]
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| Preceded by | Prosecutor forPalermo 1999–2005 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | National Antimafia Prosecutor 2005–2012 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by | President of the Italian Senate 2013–2018 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | President of Italy Acting 2015 | Succeeded by |
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| Position established | Leader ofFree and Equal 2017–2018 | Position abolished |
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