All about Vittorio Pisani, the new Chief of Police who enraged Roberto Saviano
Vittorio Pisani is the new Chief of Police. Curriculum vitae and curiosities (not only about Saviano…)
Vittorio Pisani? “The new police chief is the classic example of what is defined, with a somewhat overused formula, a «cop of race»; investigator specialized in organized crime and fugitive hunter, Vittorio Pisani – Calabrian by birth and Neapolitan by adoption, but Milan fan, 56 years old in ten days – embodies the official who grew up at the school of Mobile Squads and Anti-Crime, the expression of a generation formed in the aftermath of the mafia massacres that thirty years ago brought the country to its knees and provoked a recovery of the state based precisely on the fight against the clans”.
Thus writes today in the Corriere della Sera Giovanni Bianconi, an expert journalist in the sector, very familiar with issues related to the Services and the judiciary.
But let's see the appointments decided yesterday by the government and then the complete profile of Pisani.
GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS: NOT ONLY PISANI TO THE POLICE
Finally, the majority parties find an agreement on the appointments regarding Rai, the Police, the prefect of Rome and the Guardia di Finanza. The Council of Ministers, on the proposal of the Minister of Economy and Finance Giancarlo Giorgetti – absent from today's meeting because he was involved in Japan with the G7 – approved the designation of Roberto Sergio as a member of the RAI Board of Directors. The Mef will now, in the Assembly, formulate a formal proposal for the appointment of Sergio to the Board of Directors as CEO. Sergio will then take the place left vacant by the outgoing Carlo Fuortes for the remaining term of office.
GOVERNMENT GOES GREEN TO DE GENNARO AND PISANI
On the proposal of Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi, the CDM approved the appointment of the current number two of Aisi, Vittorio Pisani, as Chief of Police, a role hitherto held by Lamberto Giannini, in turn appointed new Prefect of Rome. Finally, the knot concerning the successor of Giuseppe Zafarana at the top of the Guardia di Finanza has also been resolved. In the end, on the basis of a political agreement, it was decided to focus on second-in-command Andrea De Gennaro ( here the in-depth analysis from Start Magazine ). His appointment will be formalized at the next meeting of the CDM, after Giorgetti's return.
THE WORDS OF MELONI
Giorgia Meloni wished both of them "great success in this new and delicate position, for which they will be able to count on the full support of the government". On the other hand, according to the premier, Pisani and Giannini are "two highly competent and experienced state servants who will contribute to strengthening the security of citizens and the defense of institutions". Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini is also satisfied with the appointments: “From me and the whole League, congratulations to Pisani, the new Chief of Police. Thanks and good work to Lamberto Giannini, neo-prefect of Rome".
WHO IS VITTORIO PISANI, THE NEW CHIEF OF POLICE
The new chief of police is Vittorio Pisani, born in 1967, senior manager of the State Police, (current deputy director of Aisi) was head of the Naples mobile and directed investigative activities that led to the capture of the boss of the Casalesi clan Antonio Iovine and the clan chief Michele Zagaria.
PISANI'S BIOGRAPHY
Calabrian by birth, but Neapolitan by adoption, Pisani spent many years of his career in Naples. Official in charge of various sections of the Naples mobile squad from 1990 to 1999, in 1998 he was promoted for extraordinary merit to the rank of deputy commissioner added for a judicial police operation of extraordinary importance in contrasting the Secondigliano Alliance. From 1999 to 2004 he held the position of coordinator of investigations into organized crime and search for fugitives at the Central Operational Service of the State Police. Manager of the Naples mobile squad from 2004 to 2011, during his tenure he received numerous commendations and solemn commendations for particularly important judicial police operations against organized crime, including the captures of various fugitive Camorra leaders.
THE STAGES OF PISANI'S CAREER
Deputy ministerial adviser at the Central Anti-Crime Directorate from June 2011 to December 2012, he directed the investigative activities that led to the capture of fugitive Camorra leader Michele Zagaria.
CHARGES AND ABSOLUTION
“In 2011 – recalled Il Sole 24 Ore – Vittorio Pisani was involved in the investigation into the alleged laundering of dirty money by the Lo Russo Camorra clan in luxurious restaurants in Naples run by the Iorio brothers, with whom he was a friend. The public prosecutor's office, at the time led by Giovandomenico Lepore, challenged him for the crimes of disclosure of secrecy, aiding and abetting, abuse of office and forgery. The indictment took place a few days after the arrest of boss Michele Zagaria. But Pisani was completely cleared of those accusations and acquitted with full formula in all levels of judgement".
THE CONTROVERSY FOR THE ESCORT IN SAVIANO
In 2009 Vittorio Pisani, at the time head of the Naples mobile squad, gave an interview to the Corriere della Sera magazine, in which he explained that he did not share the decision to grant escort to Roberto Saviano, author of «Gomorrah», a book given printed three years earlier. «We gave a negative opinion. Many people engaged against the clans are left defenseless» said the policeman among other things.
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EXTRACT FROM THE CORRIERE DELLA SERA ARTICLE ABOUT VITTORIO PISANI
The new police chief is the classic example of what is defined, with a slightly abused formula, a "cop of race"; investigator specialized in organized crime and fugitive hunter, Vittorio Pisani – Calabrian by birth and Neapolitan by adoption, but Milan fan, 56 years old in ten days – embodies the official who grew up at the school of Mobile Squads and Anti-Crime, the expression of a generation formed in the aftermath of the mafia massacres that thirty years ago brought the country to its knees and caused a recovery of the state based precisely on the fight against the clans.
From there the chain of "furniture makers" started at the top of the institution: Fernando Masone, Gianni De Gennaro, Vittorio Manganelli and Alessandro Pansa led the public safety for twenty years, between 1994 and 2015, and raised a brood of policemen destined for a brilliant career. Pisani spent almost all of it between the Naples police station and the Central Operations Service, working on the street and with an ear always inclined to wiretaps and "tips", but also a lover of Law applied to investigations and author of scientific publications; protagonist of investigations and arrests of important bosses (especially Camorra) and some mishaps: the controversy over the opinion against the escort assigned to the then young writer Roberto Saviano and a trial for alleged aiding and abetting and revealing a secret from which he came out with a double acquittal, in first instance and on appeal; and his accuser, former Camorrista repentant Salvatore Lo Russo, convicted of slander.
A judicial affair which, the judges wrote in the sentence which became definitive, "ended up turning into a trial of the defendant's career, his morality, his own person and consequently the important office to which he was in charge (at that time head of Mobile, ed)». But leaving it spotless. As a suspect, the magistrates had imposed a ban on him staying in Naples, and at that juncture Pisani had returned to work in Rome, in the Anti-Crime Department, from where he led the arrest of Michele Zagaria, the boss of the Casalesi clan, a year after that of the other boss Antonio Iovine.
From those operations was born the Rai fiction Undercover, with the actor Claudio Gioè in the role of Pisani who in the meantime has risen in rank to lead the Immigration Service of the ministry: another office that has become strategic where he was appreciated by the Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini during the Conte I government and by the then head of cabinet Matteo Piantedosi, who in 2019 promoted him to deputy director of Aisi, the internal secret service.
With Piantedosi returning to the Viminale as owner, and the Meloni government determined to bring the police top back into the spoils system carousel, Pisani's name emerged as an almost natural candidate to replace Lamberto Giannini, appointed just over two years ago . An experience abruptly interrupted above all to give a sign of discontinuity with the more recent past embodied more than by Giannini by his predecessor: the prefect Franco Gabrielli, appointed in 2015 by Matteo Renzi and who became Mario Draghi's beacon in matters of security, at the point of choosing him as undersecretary with responsibility for the secret services.
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EXTRACT FROM THE ARTICLE OF REPUBLIC ON VITTORIO PISANI
The future police chief had begun to forge ahead immediately after graduating in law from Rome. In 1990, having won the competition in the police force, he arrived in Naples. After four months behind the wheel, he switched to the flying squad. In 1997, at the age of just 30, he became head of the homicide section and built his reputation as a fugitive hunter. For his investigations into the Camorra cartel "of the Alliance of Secondigliano" he was promoted to deputy commissioner for extraordinary merits and in 1999 he went to Rome, to the Central Operations Service, where he remained for five years. Here he scores one of the coups to which he is closest: the arrest of Francesco Prudentino, boss of the Apulian Sacra Corona Unita, discovered in Greece in 2000, where Pisani remained for six months to follow the operation. In 2004 he returned to Naples to lead the Mobile: a team of 400 policemen, 40 investigative groups and 9 executives who achieved results of enormous depth, solving crimes and arresting bosses such as Eduardo Contini, Vincenzo Licciardi, Cesare Pagano, Salvatore Russo and killers such as Ugo De Lucia, murderer of Gelsomina Verde, innocent victim of the Scampia feud. In those years, he wrote a book entitled Informants, confidential news, police secrecy. An interview of his from 2009 causes discussion, where he says he gave a negative opinion on the assignment of the escort to the author of Gomorrah, the writer Roberto Saviano. Since 2012 he has been dealing with the management of the migratory phenomenon and for five years he directed the Central Immigration Service in Rome even when (in 2018) Matteo Salvini arrived at the Interior Ministry. In July 2019, the Conte government appointed him deputy director of Aisi, the internal secret service. From today he is number one in the state police. Another challenge, for the fugitive hunter
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/vittorio-pisani-polizia-saviano/ on Fri, 12 May 2023 06:02:51 +0000.