The former prostitute Sabrina Minardi, the concubine of the deceased mobster Enrico de Pedis, breaks his silence and describes the murky secrets of Italy in the seventies and eighties.
Sex, Mafia and Vatican
MIGUEL MORA
Mid-seventies, early eighties. Italia era un polvorÃn. Italy was a powder keg. The laboratory of the modern world. The cultural and political forefront. Cold War, the years of lead. Palestinians and Israelis, the CIA and the KGB, the Red Brigades terror and black. The Communists agreeing with Democrats. The Sicilian Mafia filling the streets with heroin and cocaine. Pasolini was murdered in Ostia. Juan Pablo II preparation with the Opus Dei, the imminent collapse of the Soviet bloc. Aldo Moro kidnapped. Aldo Moro killed. The killing of the Bologna station. Andreotti, El Divo, and its hypothetical kiss Toto Riina, the bloodthirsty boss. Sordi and Gassman, Mastroianni, Fellini and Antonioni. Celentano and Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, giving joy to the Holy See's finances. The collapse of Banco Ambrosiano. The murder of Roberto Calvi (London, Black Friars Bridge.) And Michele Sindona, a banker of Cosa Nostra: a little poison in the coffee.
It has been 30 years and almost all those dark mysteries remain that: mysteries. Rather, secrets that were not disclosed. Crimes, often very serious, for which the perpetrators never paid, or pay. "A country without truth," said Leonardo Sciascia. A black hole, we would say now.
In this hole returned four years ago, in the most unexpected way, through a television program, the Italian-Who knows where, a lady who rode back and bloody those crazy years. The lady called and called, Sabrina Minardi.
Today is 50. She was a girl from a poor family, born in Rome's Trastevere neighborhood. Mona, but not gorgeous, beauty was not enough to be an actress. But he was more than enough to become a prostitute. High quality, what is now called an escort.
Thanks to his office, Minardi met closely, very closely, many protagonists of that wild time. Committed the offense, he noted, stopped, took drugs at close range, baskets earned money, squandered it, buried their friends and disappeared.
His life, like many young Italians then going to fable and eventually became an inferno. At 19 years, almost adolescent, June 16, 1979, Minardi was married to the Lazio striker Bruno Giordano, the emblem of this great team that went down in the annals as the most Cutler football history. Off the field, many players were sympathetic to the fascist thugs, many wearing gun or knife, drunkenness and fights were frequent. Within the field behaved the same: razed what put them ahead. By hook or by crook.
Minardi's relationship with the gallows capocannoniere, Trasteverino as she, 23, idol of half Rome was short lived. Two years born Valentina, common daughter, who is now 28 years. But then Minardi Giordano tired of seeing actresses posing with medium hair in magazines. Separated. Minardi could no longer ignore the risk, luxury and champagne.
Soon after she met her future lover more fiery, Enrico de Pedis, also known as Renatino. The guy was one of the three heads of the band's Magliana, the mafia that dominated Rome, its palaces and its suburbs for nearly a decade. One night he saw Renatino Minardi in a piano bar in Piazza Navona, and sent him roses and champagne.
De Pedis The band was in those years author and contributor to a thousand and one crimes themselves and others. Some know her by the novel Romanzo Criminale, judge and writer Giancarlo de Cataldo, who then was also film and television series (translated in Spain and Rome criminal). Renatino was the Dandi, always impeccably clean and very blessed, Sabrina Patrizia Minardi was in fiction. More than love, were friends and lovers for 10 years.
Now, after 25 years hiding and fleeing from justice (he was arrested for helping to flee Renatino), Minardi has reappeared and decided to sing. Tell their secrets. But not all, warns journalist Raffaella Notary in the introduction to the fascinating criminal secret memoirs, true story of the band's Magliana, recently published by Newton Compton and signed Roman half by both women. Notary was who rescued Minardi from obscurity in 2006: "I did that interview on television, then stopped her, and suddenly I called again in October 2009. He said he wanted to keep talking."
As a prostitute, Minardi was a comet and did not prisoners. Became legendary for their thighs ministers, bishops, cardinals, football players, gangsters, millionaires, cops, spies, terrorists. Minardi, and De Pedis, was fighting in all sorts of places. For example, in San Pedro. Calvi, president of Banco Ambrosiano, lost her head.
And the Archbishop Marcinkus was not far behind. On page 114 of the book, says Minardi lay several times with God's banker: "I do not know what he would have told me, perhaps I was happy and cute with generous people. Finally, the fact is that he wanted be me. "And you?" "And I was with him. You can not pull back in situations like this (...) The Curillo was very direct, did not like the preludes" he says. Spurred by the reporter, Minardi is pulling from memory: "Do not know how many girls he had the archbishop."
Some Italian media have said that Minardi has broken his silence because he needs money, and working with justice to mitigate their crime problems. Notary journalist explains that she has not ever asked one euro, and added that Minardi is sick, has an arm almost useless due to a car accident, is a former drug addict (has spent years taking psychotropic drugs, and the penalty has been commuted to six months of rehabilitation) and is trying to "be at peace with itself and with its past."
Minardi has spent months working actively with the law and has become a major prosecution witness in the prosecution of Rome. His contribution seems particularly important to clarify one of those great unsolved mysteries, perhaps the most obscure of all: the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, a Vatican citizen young daughter of a church official, who disappeared forever June 22, 1983 when he was 15.
The case during this time has stimulated the imagination of scores of journalists, judges and police. Ali Agca, the Turk who attacked the Pope has said he knows where he is. Minardi but only seems to have reliable clues. With its statement, there are three people under investigation for kidnapping. For the first time in 30 years. All three are old friends from De Pedis.
According Minardi has told the prosecutors, the head of the Testaccini, ie Renatino, head of the most dangerous and mysterious wing of the band's Magliana, had much to do with the kidnapping of Orlandi. For years it was thought that the big secret is hidden in the tomb of Renatino incredible, located in the crypt of the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare, church run by Opus Dei since 1992, a few steps from Piazza Navona, just where he disappeared Emanuela Orlandi.
When the faithful protested the vicar to have been buried in such a sacred place such offender was none other than Giulio Andreotti, who came to the defense of the priest: "Perhaps De Pedis has not been a benefactor to mankind, but since then has been a great benefactor to Sant'Apollinare "said the senator for life, who is now 93.
According to Attorney, Minardi has made it clear to prosecutors that criminal holding the Magliana was related to the Mafia, the Camorra, Freemasonry, the secret service, politicians like Andreotti, businessmen, bankers and high priests.
According to a statement Minardi, between 1982 and 1984, despite being fled from justice, Renatino dined more than once Andreotti's house, which it has denied (though not usually do so because he says it is to deny the news two times).
Before the public prosecutor against the journalist who interviewed him, Sabrina Minardi said the band entered their money in the Institute for Religious Works (IOR) through the Banco Ambrosiano, Roberto Calvi who then presided. That money served fresh and black, among other things, that John Paul II will finance the Solidarity union, Lech Walesa, the idea of opening a breach in the Soviet bloc, as long as Minardi.
"I remember once Renato came home with a Vuitton bag full of money," Minardi in the book. "We made packages, we have one billion lire (one hundred million pesetas at the time) and the next day we took him to Marcinkus.
According to his reconstruction, De Pedis was outraged with the Holy See because the president of IOR refused to return money to the mafia that had been entered. Minardi that the gangster had a relationship of great trust with Cardinal Ugo Poletti, president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, but that relationship did not help him to recover the investment. So we sought a way to blackmail the Vatican. The procedure was kidnapped Emanuela Orlandi: "The kidnapped and taken to the house of my parents in Torvaianica, near Rome. Renato told me that he used the apartment for a night, it was an emergency, but ultimately there was a couple of weeks. "
"Renato, and Sergio (the driver) they put me in the car," he continues. The kidnapped girl was "upset, confused, crying, laughing. They had cut the hair of an obscene way. I said, 'My name is Emanuela.
One day, Renatino came to eat at the restaurant Pippo l'Abruzzese, went with Sergio, the driver, and had two sacks, continues. "We went to a work, and I stayed in the car." So we remove all the evidence, 'they said. In one of the bags, says the woman's body was Orlandi, and on the other, "that of a 11 year old boy killed for vendetta, was Nicitra Domenico, son of another member of the band."
According to Minardi, the operation was a reason: to pressure the Vatican to return the money to the mob entered the IOR through Ambrosiano. Marcinkus's name was forever linked to the secret lodge Propaganda Due (P2) and financial scandals of the era, including the crash of Ambrosiano. Monsignor maintained strong relationships with the likes of Michele Sindona, the Mafia's banker, and the master of P2 Licio Gelli. "Renatino looked good in the Masons. Y Gelli knew," said Sabrina Minardi. "It was part of the secret list of those who never found. Always said that being a Mason will open a thousand new ways, not just for the money, but because they had never belonged to it being a creep."
"Very likely," writes attorney, "Renatino spoke at the open negotiation between the domes of the Vatican and to restore the Cosa Nostra mafia money was delivered to Ambrosiano by Calvi." There was a favor, "that is safe," he concludes. "If not, explain treatment as they gave to bury him in Sant'Apollinare." According to the journalist, the decision was made the head of the Italian bishops: His Eminence Ugo Poletti.
But back to happier times the couple Minardi-Renatino: "I had a thousand gifts, Louis Vuitton suitcases full of banknotes of 100,000 lire, and say, 'Spend it all, if you come home with money, do not open the door ".
The passion lasted two years, Minardi Renatino thought was what he had said, the owner of a supermarket. Partly true: he invested the profits from drug trafficking in various businesses. Reading the newspaper learned that Minardi was a kingpin of the dreaded Magliana. He began to tie knots and she panicked. In those two years of coca and danger had seen many things, too. "One day some thugs tried to kidnap my daughter, Valentina, and Renatino said, 'If you forget everything you've seen, nothing will happen."
De Pedis hugged and kissed Pippo Calo, a notorious Sicilian Mafia and Cosa Nostra benchmark in Rome, frequented by faccendiere Flavio Carboni (now in prison for conspiracy in favor of Berlusconi Masonic), shipped with Archbishop Marcinkus and Calvi, and sent on judges who always got their acquittal ... In fact, Renatino fancied himself an entrepreneur, but had been a criminal since his youth. Prophetic Giordano striker, who then play with Maradona at Napoli, Minardi warned never be left to De Pedis holding her daughter: "If one day is shot, will kill her too. At the end of the day, Like all bosses end, his mouth on the sidewalk. "
Indeed, seven gunmen peppered with bullets Renatino in Via del Pellegrino, near Campo dei Fiori, on February 2, 1990. He was 36 years. That day, Sabrina Minardi was with him, shopping in the neighborhood. He heard the shots from a haberdashery. Then, the bandit was buried in the Verano cemetery and later moved secretly to the Vatican Basilica. A month ago, the Holy See gave prosecutors the option of opening the tomb. For now, they have ignored the invitation.
The picture that illustrated in the first instance the report 'gangster lover, mistress of the Bishop "was not the protagonist of the book, Sabrina Minardi, but the author of the Raffaella Attorney. In the current version of these captions have now been corrected.
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