This year marks the thirty-second anniversary of the mafia massacres in Capaci and via D’Amelio, where judges Giovanni Falcone, Paolo Borsellino and Francesca Morvillo lost their lives.
The policemen in charge of their protection Antonio Montinaro, Rocco Dicillo, Vito Schifani, Agostino Catalano, Eddie Walter Cosina, Vincenzo Li Muli, Claudio Traina and Emanuela Loi died alongside them.
In the place where the terrible explosion occurred on 23 May 1992, near the junction for Capaci along the A/29 motorway, today stands a garden looked after by the “Quarto Savona Diecici” Association (named after the radio theme song of escort), animated by Tina Montinaro, Antonio’s widow.
On this land there are several olive trees, each dedicated to a person from the institutions who fell at the hands of the mafia, and it is from each of them that the oil was extracted, consecrated in the Chrism mass of Holy Week, which will be used as holy oil in during this liturgical year, becoming a symbol of redemption and becoming a sign for everyone of the authenticity and depth of religious feeling.
Precisely on the occasion of the Chrism Mass on Holy Thursday, the Turin State Police donated to the Metropolitan Archbishop of Turin and Bishop of Susa, Monsignor Roberto Repole, to the Bishop of Pinerolo, RMonsignor Derio Olivero, and to the Bishop of Ivrea, Monsignor Edoardo Aldo Cerrato, the ampoules of oil appropriately made available by the Department of Public Security for all police stations in Italy.
The initiative, which started from the Palermo Police Headquarters and which today involves all the offices of the State Police, – welcomed with enthusiasm by the Italian Episcopal Conference and extended to all the dioceses of Italy – is testimony to the constant commitment of the institutions in the fight against crime organized and the importance of memory.
