Thirty years have passed since the massacres of '92 . The memory of who was there is still clear. A scar that will never go away. Fifty-seven days after the Capaci massacre, in which judge Giovanni Falcone , his wife Francesca Morvillo and the escort agents Antonio Montinaro, Vito Schifani and Rocco Dicillo lost their lives, another cloud of smoke rises over the city of Palermo. it destroys homes, detonates parked cars and tears bodies to shreds. An incessant sound of sirens that interrupts what should have been a quiet summer afternoon. At 4:58 pm on July 19, 1992, a Fiat 126, stuffed with 90 kilograms of explosives, was blown up in Via Mariano D'Amelio, using a remote control. Judge Paolo Borsellino , who had gone to visit his mother, and the escort agents Agostino Catalano, Emanuela Loi , Vincenzo Li Muli, Walter Eddie Cosina and Claudio Traina lose their lives.

“Then we, in the environment of photojournalists and journalists who dealt with the mafia, thought that Judge Falcone would no longer kill him because he was now far from Palermo 'things', from Sicilian 'business'. He had moved to Rome for Criminal Affairs. Instead they killed him all right. And they killed him on his way to Palermo. Terrible days, lived in apnea, shots in industrial quantities. The massacre, the funeral, the bottom-up of the judge's archive while 'alive'. How many photos, how much work ”, Franco Lannino, journalist and photojournalist from Palermo , tells exclusively. “Then, after the funeral and after everything was done, the fateful question: who is photographing themselves now? Our chief editors and our editors had no doubts. Purse ! And we, cynically, thinking: ' will he be the next target now? 'Yes, it will be him. We knew it, everyone knew it. We collected more shots of Paolo Borsellino in those 57 days than in all previous years . It was a real hunt, culminating in the municipal library, the last public appearance of the judge before his extreme sacrifice ".

“Now , exactly thirty years after his death, I am ashamed - adds Lannino - And I feel a little guilty. I knew it, I knew they would kill him. What have I done ? I took pictures, digging through his expressions. I feel guilty even if of an infinitesimal part compared to those who, politician, or large state official, equally knew and did nothing to avoid it. And sometimes I sleep badly. And I think. But how can those, now few left alive, responsible at the top who knew and who did nothing to stop that tragic drift manage to sleep peacefully? I feel little, little guilty in front of these wicked and fearful bureaucrats, but I feel so guilty in the eyes of those who at that time did not even know Judge Paolo Borsellino ".

Angelo Barraco

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