Rho. Sport brings together in memory of the mafia victims

The volleyball tournament won by itis Cannizzaro

Rho – Thursday 23 May, National day of legality in memory of the victims of all mafias, the anniversary of the 1992 Capaci massacre is celebrated Municipality of Rho in collaboration with local schools has demonstrated sensitivity on the topic, organizing initiatives with the aim of involving younger people and encouraging them to become aware. A 4-team mixed volleyball tournament was organized at the Majorana institute. The initiative was strongly supported by the anti-mafia commission as a moment of aggregation between children, even from different schools.

President Clelia La Palomenta: “an initiative that we care a lot about and that we hope to replicate again and again. It is important that there is a moment of closeness and aggregation between the kids. We care a lot about events of this type, because we believe that sport is capable of creating inclusion, and that inclusion is one of the foundations of legality and anti-mafia”. An intrinsic importance to the initiative, capable of encouraging collective thinking relating to the great mafia events, to the great massacres, on the occasion of the anniversary of the Capaci massacre – which will take place tomorrow 23 May -.

Wednesday 22 May a mixed volleyball tournament was held, in which students from Majorana high school, IT Mattei, Itis Cannizzaro and Rebora high school they competed in numerous matches. The event began with an inauguration moment and a greeting from local institutions in the morning, at 9:00. We then continued with the matches which occupied the two gyms of the host institute, providing a great spectacle. The awards ceremony, still in the presence of the institutions, was held at the end of the matches at around 2.00 pm, opened by a greeting from the school director, who also congratulated the winners.

Great celebration for the boys of the Cannizzaro institute, who won with a good, solid and compact game. A good level from all the teams, with a large crowd of classmates there to watch the games and support their friends.

A moment of commemoration is scheduled for tomorrow 23 May, the anniversary of the Capaci massacre. The appointment will be at 10.45 am at the Parco della Legalità in via San Bernardo 70. On this occasion all the victims of the mafia will be commemorated, in particular those of the mafia massacres of Capaci and via D’Amelio (19 July 1992), in among whom Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesca Morvillo, Paolo Borsellino and the agents of their escorts lost their lives: Agostino Catalano, Walter Eddie Cosina, Rocco Dicillo, Vincenzo Li Muli, Emanuela Loi, Antonio Montinaro, Vito Schifani, Claudio Traina.

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