GIORGIO BORIS GIULIANO

Giorgio Boris Giuliano

is righteous because...

He was an investigator of the State Police and head of the Palermo mobile squad, innovative for the investigation methods used, he contributed to the improvement of civil society, free from mafia influences

Giorgio Boris Giuliano was born on 22 October 1930 in Piazza Armerina, in the province of Enna. He spends part of his childhood in Libya where his father works as a non-commissioned officer in the Navy.

The family returned to Sicily, settling in Messina, the city where Boris graduated in Law. He wins the competition to become a police commissioner and asks to be assigned to Palermo. He starts at the Homicide Section where he becomes an executive. After 1976 he joined the FBI.

He becomes a very good investigator, being involved in various police investigations including the mysterious disappearance of the journalist Mauro De Mauro who suddenly disappears into thin air in 1970. Giuliano follows this case with energy, covering various tracks with multiple hypotheses, clues and motives. He devotes himself to the case with keen interest and a lot of commitment, investigating complex scenarios. De Mauro had lived an extremely active life which had remained so until the moment of his death. His activity as an investigative reporter on the mafia had led him to acquire important information on the case of the president of Eni E. Mattei on which the director Francesco Rosi was making a film. And it is precisely after having promised the director himself to provide very important revelations in this regard, that De Mauro suddenly dissolves into thin air.

The Carabinieri direct their investigations on leads related to drug trafficking, on which De Mauro had investigated to discover the links with the mafia. Boris Giuliano, together with the magistrates, hefollowed the case with great determination and great professionalism, favoring the trail of the attack on Mattei and ending up with the investigation of the lawyer Vito Guarrasi, an ambiguous figure in the Palermo of those years.

In 1979 Giuliano investigates on the discovery of two briefcases containing 500,000 dollars which constitute the payment for a batch of drugs seized at the New York airport. Other policemen stop two mobsters and forged weapons, heroin and documents are found in their apartment. This discovery leads back to Leoluca Bagarella, to the Camorrista Antonio Nuvoletta, to the Corleonesi clan of Totò Riina.

From this moment Giuliano receives several anonymous phone calls with which he is threatened with death. In the same period, he too investigates the banker Michele Sindona and meets Giorgio Ambrosoli, liquidator of the Sindona banks, who will be killed immediately after their meeting.

It is July 21, 1979 when the death sentence for Giuliano is carried out, while the brave policeman is in a bar in via Simone De Blasi in Palermo having coffee. Leoluca Bagarella fires seven shots from a distance that leaves him no way out. The murder of Boris Giuliano will soon be linked to that of the Carabinieri Captain Emanuele Basile who will lose his life trying to find out the truth about the assassination of the assistant commissioner.

The figures called, in various ways, to replace, in some way, the head of the Mobile are ambiguous characters that have little to do with him. In 1995, after three degrees of judgment, Riina, Provenzano, Brusca, Madonia, Greco, Calò, Geraci were definitively sentenced to life imprisonment by the Court of Cassation.

Boris Giuliano was a valiant policeman, an example of self-denial and a high sense of duty, contemptuous of danger.

He leaves us a new way of investigating, based on collaboration, teamwork, non-superficial investigations, creation of archives and much more.

In memory of him, the gold medal for civil value was awarded. Many buildings, including the one that houses the Palermo Mobile Squad, are named him.

Cinema and television paid tribute to him and his brother played him in the film “One Hundred Days in Palermo” dedicated to General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa.

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