A day of events took place today in Palermo, for the 32nd anniversary, in memory of the victims of the Capaci and Via D’Amelio massacres. An opportunity to strongly reaffirm the commitment of the State Police and all the institutions in the fight against organized crime and to honor the memory of the innocent victims. (Photo)
The commemorations began this morning at the Capaci stele, where the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, accompanied by the Chief of Police, Vittorio Pisani and the Police Commissioner of Palermo, Vito Calvino, laid a laurel wreath in memory of the sacrifice of the magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Francesca Morvillo and of the 3 policemen of the escort Rocco Dicillo, Vito Schifani and Antonio Montinaro, killed by the mafia TNT on 23 May 1992.
In Palermo, inside Palazzo Jung, the opening ceremony preview of the “Museum of the Present Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino”. Created in collaboration by the Falcone Foundation and the Ministry of the Interior, the museum is a multimedia journey that traces the life and work of the two magistrates, with particular attention to their commitment to the fight against the mafia.
The celebrations will continue inside the Pietro Lungaro barracks, home of the glorious escort department of the Palermo police station. Here, Minister Piantedosi together with the Chief of Police Pisani will lay a laurel wreath under the plaque dedicated to the victims of the massacres which remembers, in addition to those of Capaci, also the judge Paolo Borsellino and the 5 policemen of the escort Vincenzo Li Muli, Walter Eddie Cosina, Agostino Catalano, Claudio TrainaClaudio Traina and Emanuela Loi, killed in the attack on 19 July 1992 in Palermo.
In the garden of the barracks, where the reliquary containing the remains of the “Quarto Savona 15” is located, the escort car for judge Falcone in which officers Dicillo, Schifani and Montinaro died, two murals created by the students of the art high school will be discovered ” Vincenzo Ragusa and Otama Kiyohara” depicting Falcone, Borsellino and the 8 escort policemen.
In memory of these state servants, in the chapel of the Lungaro barracks, the authorities will participate in a memorial mass and will meet the families of the victims for a moment of condolence and remembrance.
The commitment to remembering comes above all from sharing with young people the values that inspired the magistrates, the policemen and those who gave their lives to fight the Sicilian mafia. For this reason, at the “Garden of Memory”, under the stele of Capaci, the “Quarto Savona 15” association has organized a day of initiatives for students, with whom they can share the culture of legality, which also sees participation of the student agents of the Peschiera del Garda school, of the technical students and deputy inspector students of the Nettuno institute. The police chief Vittorio Pisani will also take part in the meetings in the afternoon and on this occasion a memorandum of understanding will be signed between the “Quarto-Savona 15” association and the Ministry of Justice, which provides for the implementation of joint initiatives to the memory of the victims of the mafia and for education on legality.
At 5.58pm, the exact time in which Capaci’s cowardly attack occurred, the trumpeters of the State Police present at the Stele, at the escort office of the Lungaro barracks and at the Falcone Tree will perform, in unison, the Ordinance Silence, at at the end of which all the names of the victims will be read.
The commemorations will end with a Holy Mass at the church of San Domenico, where the tomb of judge Falcone is located, in which the prefect Pisani will also take part.
