Nino Di Matteo
{{Short description|Italian magistrate (born 1961)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Nino Di Matteo
|image = Nino Di Matteo (cropped).jpg
|caption = Di Matteo in 2015
|birth_name = Antonino Di Matteo
|office = Member of the High Council of the Judiciary
|term_start = 10 October 2019
|term_end = 24 January 2023
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1961|4|26}}
|birth_place = Palermo, Italy
|death_date =
|death_place =
|nationality = Italian
|alma_mater = University of Palermo
|occupation = Magistrate
}}
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.{{cite web|date=27 January 2022|title=Quirinale: Alternativa vota pm Nino Di Matteo|url=https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/politica/2022/01/27/quirinale-la-corsa-al-colle-quarta-votazione_6404a741-fbe4-4544-8d59-639e2aa1a04b.html|access-date=27 January 2022|website=Libero|language=it}} Due to his anti-mafia activity, Di Matteo has been under guard since 1993.[https://www.ilmessaggero.it/elezioni_presidente_repubblica/elezioni_presidente_repubblica_nino_di_matteo_magistrato_chi_e-6466063.html Nino Di Matteo, chi è il magistrato sotto scorta più votato al quarto scrutinio dopo Sergio Mattarella], Il Messaggero
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.[https://www.editorialedomani.it/politica/italia/nino-di-matteo-chi-e-magistrato-antimafia-berlusconi-trattativa-cx4f53fh Di Matteo al Quirinale? Il magistrato che gli ex 5 stelle vorrebbero presidente], Domani
In 2019, he was elected member of the High Council of the Judiciary.
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