Sensational wiretaps involving former prosecutor Natoli and Senator Scarpinato in connection with the Mafia and public procurement investigation.

Controversy erupts over wiretaps broadcast on the program "Lo Stato delle Cose." "I'll ask you this question." On October 28, 2023, Roberto Scarpinato said this to his former colleague Gioacchino Natoli ahead of his summons to Palazzo San Macuto to discuss the mafia and public procurement dossier before the Anti-Mafia Commission. "And you bring up this story," he continued in the wiretap captured during the Caltanissetta prosecutor's investigation and played by Massimo Giletti on Rai 3.

The senator and former magistrate's response: "Natoli and I never agreed. I spoke to him before the Anti-Mafia Commission hearings began. I had identified him as someone we needed to hear, regarding the statements he'd made in a trial, and the confidences Borsellino had given him. Then, months after the hearing, he was accused of improperly handling a proceeding I'd never handled. And I didn't ask him a single question about this matter. So what did we need to fix?"

Regarding the alleged insults against the Borsellino family by Natoli, an open letter was sent by Manfredi, the son of the magistrate killed in the Via D'Amelio massacre on July 19, 1992. He addressed his children, urging them to "always walk with their heads held high" and reaffirming his pride, as a son, in having "parents from a different category." Former President of the Palermo Court of Appeal, Gioacchino Natoli, currently under investigation by the Caltanissetta Prosecutor's Office, in wiretaps refers to the family of the anti-mafia judge with harsh and offensive language. "Dear Merope, Paolo, and Fiammetta," Manfredi Borsellino now writes in his open letter, "years later, it emerges that another former colleague of your grandfather, albeit in a private conversation, called your father and his sisters 'all brainless,' insults and epithets more or less similar to those—as you may recall—addressed to us by another respected former judge, now convicted and imprisoned for repeatedly betraying the State for which your grandfather sacrificed his life."

The derogatory remarks, however, were apparently not directed only at Judge Borsellino's children, Lucia, Manfredi, and Fiammetta. "This time, however, it was even your dear grandmother Agnese who was insulted and vilified," Manfredi Borsellino recounts in the open letter addressed to his children, "who, during this conversation, was described as 'idiot' and as a woman who 'no one in the world or in life would ever listen to,' so much so that it would have been 'indifferent whether she was alive or dead.'" "Terrible words," for the son of the judge killed by Cosa Nostra's TNT, words "for which I could tell you again 'don't worry about them, just watch and move on,' but one of you three last night, watching the TV program that covered the unfortunate incident, confided in me that he was quite shocked to have personally known that former colleague of his grandfather," Manfredi writes, "and to have heard him spoken of as someone close to him. So, hearing those words attributed to him, he then began to think 'how many other people are like him...'" "At this point," the letter concludes, "I feel compelled to tell you today to always keep your heads held high, because perhaps your father and your aunts 'may not have enough neurons' for these people, but we were lucky to have had children like you and parents—to use the football jargon, as you know, dear to Dad—'from another category.'"