“On behalf of myself and the municipal administration, I express deep condolences for the passing of Vincenzo Agostino. His civil commitment, aimed at seeking the truth about the death of his son Nino Agostino, the police officer killed, together with his wife Ida Castelluccio, by the mafia, must continue to represent an incentive for the institutions and the judiciary to arrive at the truth complete on this murder.” Thus the mayor of Palermo Roberto Lagalla.
M5s: “State incapable of giving him the truth”
“Vincenzo Agostino was a symbol of tenacity and fight against the mafia, but also a great father who fought tirelessly against the silence of the State. He died with his long beard which he had promised not to cut until he had truth and justice for his police officer son Nino and his daughter-in-law Ida Castelluccio, a few months pregnant, killed by the mafia. I am saddened by the passing of a man like Agostino to whom the State was unable to restore the full truth and who nevertheless contributed for years to forming the consciences of many young people to whom he transmitted the values of the anti-mafia”. The senator of the 5 Star Movement, Dolores Bevilacqua, declared this in a note.
The anti-mafia commission: “He fought with all his strength”
I express deep regret for the passing of Vincenzo Agostino, courageous father of the police officer Nino and father-in-law of Ida Castelluccio, both killed in a barbaric way in August 1989. He fought with all his strength to get to the truth about that terrible massacre who also took away the little grandson who was in his mother’s womb. The long white beard had become the national symbol of the courage of a father and a Sicilian who did not give up in the face of misdirections and silences, he continued to fight even after the death of his wife Augusta Schiera. Now it is the duty of the institutions to stand by the family so that the last word is written on the murder of a state servant and his young wife, 35 years later. My deepest condolences to your children and grandchildren.
This is what was declared by the regional deputy of FDI, member of the Regional Anti-Mafia Commission, Marco Intravaia on the death of Vincenzo Agostino.
Action’s condolences
“Azione expresses deep condolences for the passing of Vincenzo Agostino. His fight to find the truth about the death of his son Nino and his wife Ida Castelluccio, killed by the mafia in August 1989, must certainly not stop now and justice must be done”, so the members of Action in Sicily.
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