Nino Di Matteo
Italian magistrate (born 1961)
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Antonino "Nino" Di Matteo (born 26 April 1961) is an Italian magistrate and prosecutor. Since 2012, he is serving as president of the National Magistrates Association of Palermo and from 2019 to 2023 he has been a member of the High Council of the Judiciary.[1] Due to his anti-mafia activity, Di Matteo has been under guard since 1993.[2]
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26 April 1961
Nino Di Matteo | |
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Di Matteo in 2015 | |
| Member of the High Council of the Judiciary | |
| In office 10 October 2019 – 24 January 2023 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Antonino Di Matteo 26 April 1961 Palermo, Italy |
| University of Palermo | |
| Occupation | Magistrate |
Biography
Di Matteo was born in Palermo, Sicily, in 1961. He obtained a classical high school diploma from the Gonzaga Institute and graduated in law from the University of Palermo. He entered the judiciary in 1991 as deputy prosecutor at the Anti-mafia division of Caltanissetta. Having become a prosecutor in Palermo in 1999, he began to investigate the mafia massacres in which Giovanni Falcone, Paolo Borsellino and their guards were killed, as well as the murders of Rocco Chinnici and Antonino Saetta.[3]
In 2019, he was elected member of the High Council of the Judiciary.