“See you this evening”. These were the words with which Rocco Dicillo she said goodbye to his girlfriend on May 23, 1992. They never saw each other again. Rocco, policeman from the judge’s escort Giovanni Falcone, died a few hours later in the Capaci massacre. He was 30 years old and was going to get married in July. He likes it too Vito Schifanie Antonio Montinaro he had decided which side to protect Giovanni Falcone, the one who had declared war on the mafia. Everyone gave their lives for an ideal.
32 years have passed since then but that wound is still bleeding because, even today, there are shadows and continuing to remember that day allows us to give voice to the heroes of our times, to those “normal” people who paid, dearly, their thirst for justice. They died to allow everyone else to live in a world where the law of the strongest does not have to apply, where respect for the rules must be everyday life, where the only guide to follow is legality and there are no different accounts, because the State is one.
Today must not be a simple commemoration. It must become an opportunity to find new strength to oppose with determination all forms of illegality and violence.
We must not make the sacrifice of those who, despite knowing the risks they ran, continued in their mission with their heads held high in vain. Justice is formed and achieved with the culture of legality starting from each of us. I am especially addressing young people who must never bow to injustice, abuse, never have to come to terms, never have to turn their heads the other way.
We remember the sacrifice of the men of the escort, of Giovanni Falcone, of Francesca Morvillowife of the magistrate who was also a victim of the Capaci massacre, an indication of the value of the culture of legality that we must all pursue.
Tommaso Minervini
Mayor
