The May 23 every year we celebrate the national anniversary of Day of Legalityaimed at commemorating the victims of all mafias and, in particular, the massacres of 1992, those of Giovanni Falcone And Paolo Borsellinothe two magistrates who had attacked Cosa Nostra head-on, bringing the leaders to trial and sentencing, on 20 January of that year, 360 defendants.
May 23rd is precisely the date on which, exactly 32 years agothe mafia killed a Capable Judge Giovanni Falcone, about to become a national anti-mafia prosecutor. His wife died in the attack Francesca Morvilloalso a magistrate, and the escort agents Vito Schifani, Rocco Dicillo And Antonio Montinaro. 23 were injured, including agents Paolo Capuzza, Angelo Corbo, Gaspare Cervello and the judicial driver Giuseppe Costanza.
57 days later, on 19 July 1992, he lost his life at the hands of Cosa Nostra, also Paolo Borsellinothe magistrate who, with Falcone, had been part of the anti-mafia pool and built the Palermo maxi-trial facility opened in 1986. In the massacre of via D’Amelio Five officers from his escort also lost their lives: Agostino Catalano, Emanuela Loi (first woman to be part of an escort and also first woman from the State Police to fall on duty), Vincenzo Li Muli, Walter Eddie Cosina And Claudio Traina.
On the occasion of the Day dedicated to legality, in Marche there are numerous awareness initiatives, some in schools, others open to all citizens. Among these, we highlight the following.
TO Pesarothe Library of Villa Fastiggi entitled to Peppino Impastatoremembers the Sicilian journalist and political activist murdered by the mafia, dedicating it to him an exhibition set up in the new outdoor space. Peppino Impastato (1948 – 1978), is a figure of civil and human inspiration: born in a mafia environment, he was not afraid to make legality and justice his reference values, always siding with the oppressed, against corrupt politicians and criminals . Strengthened by this spirit, over time the library has created a collection of books suitable for young readers and beyond, which talk about legality and justice, which also includes the texts that reconstruct the historical, human and cultural figure of Peppino Impastato.
Also on May 23rd theGalileo Galilei Comprehensive Institute of Pesaro organizes one March of legality which leaves at 9.30 from the Antonio Gramsci Primary School of Villa Fastiggi to stop at the Peppino Impasto Library and ends in the garden of the Galileo Galilei Secondary School. The initiative involves the pupils of the fourth and fifth classes of the primary school of Villa Fastiggi, Villa Ceccolini and Borgo Santa Maria.
L’University of Macerata commemorates the Day for legality and the fight against mafia crime on Thursday 23rd at 6 pm, with the words of Leonardo Sciascia de The day of the owl narrated by Simone Maretti. The initiative, open to the public, is part of the University’s civic activities coordinated by Lina Caraceni, and is a collaboration with Libera, the Bar Association and Macerata Tell. Simone Maretti’s reading will be preceded by speeches by Silvana Colellaprofessor of English literature and vice-rector of research, Roberto RossiAttorney General of the Ancona Court of Appeal, Benedetta Mazzieri, contact person for Libera Macerata, Dario D’Urso, president of the UniMC student council, who, from different perspectives, will give an account of this commitment.
«Just as the Sicilian writer’s novel represented a turning point in revealing, also through literature, the plots, the intrigues, the atrocities of power in times when the existence of the mafia was denied, so did the events of May 23 1992 represented the beginning of a new season in the fight against the mafia which, with the massacres of Capaci and Via d’Amelio, revealed its darkest and most violent face and tore the veil of silence behind which it was always hidden and operated”, explains Lina Caraceni. «From there began the season of cultural, social and judicial commitment in countering this criminal reality, but above all that mafia culture that has long pervaded entire parts of our country and which still resists».
TO Stopped there Marche region recalls the contribution of the police in the fight against the mafia, celebrating the Regional Local Police Dayand, in the presence of the governor Francesco Acquaroliand of Filippo Saltamartini vice-president and regional councilor for local police and integrated security policies. The ceremony will begin at 9 am, in the Girifalco Park near the Monument to the Fallen of the Wars, with the rendering of honors to those who fell for legality and the laying of the laurel wreath by the Marche Region. This will be followed, in Piazza del Popolo, starting from 10.30 by the institutional greetings, and at 11.30 by the award ceremony of the winning classes in the regional artistic competition “The Local Police Officer I would like next to” with delivery of the regional commendations to the Local Police personnel. In case of bad weather the event will be held at the Fermo Forum, located in via Giovanni Agnelli (Girola industrial area).
