Gaetano Costa

He was put into service in the Magistracy, before in the tribunal of Rome and then, at his request, he was transferred to the Republic Prosecutor Office of Caltanissetta where he remained from 1944 to 1978.

Since the 1960s, as evidenced by his deposition at the first Antimafia Commission, he realized that the Mafia had undergone a radical mutation and that it had nested in the vital ganglia of public administration by controlling its procurement, recruitment and management in general.

[3] In the brief period of his administration, the Prosecutor's Office of Palermo started a series of delicate investigations in which, even with limited resources at the time, he tried to hit the Mafia's patrimonial sanctuaries.

Although he was the only magistrate in Palermo to have a bullet proof car and an escort had been assigned to at the time, he did not use it as he felt that his protection would endanger others and that he was one of those who "had the duty to have courage".

No one was convicted for his death even though the tribunal of Catania found the context identifying it in the grey area between business, politics and organized crime.