Thirty years after the Capaci massacre, Mattarella in Palermo: "The history of the Republic seemed to stop"

Thirty years have passed since the day when 500 kilos of TNT gutted highway 29 at the junction for Capaci , killing the anti-Mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone, his wife and colleague Francesca Morvillo and the men of the escort Vito Schifani, Rocco Dicillo and Antonio Montinaro .

In his Palermo, Sergio Mattarella commemorates the victims of the Capaci massacre but also of via D'Amelio : only 57 days after that 23 May 1992 was also killed the right arm of Falcone, Paolo Borsellino , with the five officers of the escort: the Sardinian Emanuela Loi , the first woman to be part of an escort and also the first woman of the State Police to fall into service, Agostino Catalano, Vincenzo Li Muli, Walter Eddie Cosina and Claudio Traina .

The Head of State reached the crowd of students - from all over Italy -, Maria Falcone, numerous members of the government at the Foro Italico : the Ministers of Education Patrizio Bianchi, of the Interior Luciana Lamorgese (who this morning deposited a crown of laurel at the Stele di Capaci along the highway that connects the airport to the city), of the Justice Marta Cartabia, of the Maria Cristina Messa University, of the Foreign Affairs Luigi Di Maio.

"Thirty years have passed since that terrible May 23 when the history of our Republic seemed to stop as if it had been annihilated by pain and fear - the President of the Republic marked -. The deafening silence after the unprecedented roar effectively represents the disorientation that he tried the country in the face of that unprecedented ambush, in which Giovanni Falcone, Francesca Morvillo, Antonio Montinaro, Rocco Dicillo and Vito Schifani lost their lives ".

Falcone's "firmness of work", the Head of State recalled, "arose from the deep-rooted belief that there were no alternatives to compliance with the law, at any cost, even to that of life. With the awareness that the dignity of the functions held and one's own dignity were at stake. He cultivated courage against cowardice , the fruit of fear and fragility in the face of the arrogance of the mafia. Falcone never abandoned himself to resignation or indifference ".

THE INITIATIVES - The police chief Lamberto Giannini, the national anti-mafia prosecutor Giovanni Melillo, the Rome prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi commemorate the victims of mafia brutality. The Foro Italico, where a stage has been set up, sees the guests of the Falcone Foundation alternate, among them Don Luigi Ciotti, the general secretary of the CISL Luigi Sbarra, musicians, journalists, singers.

The city of Palermo also hosts 1,400 sheets made by 1,070 schools that accepted the appeal of the Ministry of Education and the Falcone Foundation, launched through the #LaMemoriaDiTutti call. Rita Atria, Peppino Impastato, Don Pino Puglisi, Libero Grassi, Pio La Torre, Lia Pipitone, Piersanti Mattarella, Rocco Chinnici : students in recent weeks have deepened the story of some women and men killed by mafia violence and have decorated the sheets whites - which the Palermitans used in 1992, in the aftermath of the massacres, to demonstrate their rebellion - with illustrations and messages deriving from their reflection.

(Unioneonline / D)

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