Italian authorities recalled this Friday (19) the 32nd anniversary of the murder of judge Paolo Borsellino who, alongside Giovanni Falcone, became one of the symbols of the fight against mafia groups in Italy at the beginning of the 1990s.
The case is one of the most remarkable in Italy's judicial history and was remembered with a mass in memory of the dead on Via D'Amelio, the street where the massacre took place.
Furthermore, wreaths were laid at a monument and in Piazza Municipio in Naples, near the plaque under the tree of legality that commemorates the sacrifice for justice and democracy of Falcone and Borsellino and all the victims of the attack.
The Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, recalled “with respect and emotion” the “day that profoundly marked our nation” and highlighted that “courage and commitment to justice and legality continue to be a beacon of hope and determination for all of us.”
“It is our duty to honor their memory by continuing to combat all forms of crime and defend the values of justice and freedom for which they gave their lives,” she added.
Meloni explained that the Italian government is “strongly committed to the fight against organized crime”, emphasizing that the battle “against the mafia is an absolute priority”.
The President of Italy, Sergio Mattarella, dedicated his thoughts to all the families of the victims of the massacre, “to their infinite pain, to the dignity with which, in the face of the inhuman violence of the mafia, they knew how to transmit the sense of the common good and supported the search for the full truth about the circumstances and instigators of the crime”.
Borsellino and Falcone were the judges who carried out a series of investigations against the Sicilian mafia “Cosa Nostra” and both were murdered in two attacks carried out by mafiosi.
On July 19, 1992, in Palermo, a Fiat 126 packed with explosives was detonated in front of Borsellino's mother's house, at the exact moment he arrived at the residence with an escort of five police officers. Among the victims were also Agostino Catalano, Emanuela Loi, Vincenzo Li Muli, Walter Eddie Cosina and Claudio Traina.
The attack occurred almost two months after the Capaci Massacre, when the mafia took the lives of fellow judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three police officers. (HANDLE)
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