“Falcone was a great magistrate. He and Paolo Borsellino were heroes for the whole world.”: thus, through the voice of the children of the schools of Palermo, the memory of the anti-mafia magistrates is not lost. Because it was precisely the children of the schools of Palermo – together with many students who came to the Sicilian capital from all over Italy – who were the true protagonists of the 32nd anniversary of the Capaci massacre. Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino are their heroes. As the famous motto states, the ideas of the Judges now still walk on their little legs.
Memory does not die, thanks to schools and families
It is certainly thanks to the world of education that continues to fuel memories, just as it is thanks to the families who cultivate the memory of a drama experienced live 32 years ago. “I always come here to Albero Falcone. Before, when I worked in a playroom, we always brought our students here for the anniversary. Now that I have become a mother, I come here with my children to honor the memory of Falcone and all those who died in the fight against the mafia”: this is the memory of a mother, who was only 12 years old at the time of the mafia massacres.
Maria Falcone, “At Palazzo Jung, laboratory and treasure chest of memories”
Let’s get to the news. From the early afternoon the school groups began to walk along Via Notarbartolo to get to the stage set up under the Falcone Tree. She went on stage Maria Falcone, the sister of the judge murdered by the mafia to announce the soon birth of that museum which at Palazzo Jung will be a laboratory and treasure chest of anti-mafia memory. “A few days after the massacre, a friend brought me a note that had been hung on the tree. It was written, you closed five mouths but you opened the mouths of fifty million people”, recalled Maria Falcone. Alongside Maria Falcone, only the judges’ friends on stage: the former President of the Senate Piero Grasso and the judge Leonardo Guarnotta. At the end of the ceremony there will also be room for the Keeper of the Seals Carlo Nordio.
Fears of possible protests due to the arrival of the counter procession have been allayed. Even from that front, only anti-mafia slogans and chants in memory of the killed judges. Evoking, in the end, also Paolo Borsellino’s famous red agenda.
