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It is the testimony of Tilde Montinaro, sister of Giovanni Falcone’s escort leader, that opens the fourth edition of the Festival of Legality organized by the Municipality of Andria. In front of the vast audience of “Lotti-Umberto I” students, the life of the policeman Antonio Montinaro, originally from Calimera, in the Lecce area, killed by the mafia at the age of 29 in the Capaci massacre in which his colleagues Vito Schifani also lost their lives, was retraced and Rocco Dicillo, judge Falcone and his wife Francesca Morvillo. The family of Montinaro, who left behind a wife and two children, have never stopped remembering and perpetuating the memory of a painful event that turned their lives upside down forever.
Identified simply as the men of Falcone’s escort, the policemen Montinaro, Schifani and Dicillo remained for many years, in the newspaper reports, without a face or a name. Montinaro’s family fought and won a battle of dignity so that their story could finally be told. On extremely delicate and important topics such as legality and justice, there is a need for authentic and credible testimonies in order to reach the hearts of young people. The meeting with Tilde Montinaro to reflect on one of the most dramatic events in the country’s history serves precisely this: to shake consciences and inspire virtuous behavior.
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