"The mafia has always nourished itself with complicity and fear, thriving in the shadows. The figures of Falcone and Borsellino, like many other servants of the state who fell in the fight against organized crime, have made the sense of duty and commitment to fight the mafia and to shed light on its darkness ". The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella said it on the 28th anniversary of the Capaci massacre.
"The Mafiosi had not foreseen - adds Mattarella - that the teaching of Falcone and Borsellino, their example, the values they manifested, would survive, strengthening".
In the video message to the young people of the schools of the 'The ship of legality' project, Mattarella said that they must be "proud" of the example of Falcone and Borsellino and always remember it.
Place a laurel wreath on the site of the massacre - the prefect of Palermo Giuseppe Forlani, the commissioner of Palermo Renato Cortese, Maria Falcone, sister of the judge and Tina Montinari, the widow of the judge's caposcorta, the provincial commander of the carabinieri Arturo Guarino and the provincial commander of the Guardia di Finanza Antonio Quintavalle laid a crown on the site of the Capaci massacre.
Due to the coronavirus emergency, there will be no demonstrations this year and the foundation named after the magistrate has proposed displaying a white sheet on the balconies.
A mass will be celebrated in the church of San Domenico, where Falcone is buried, and at 17.58 - the time of the massacre - a minute of silence in front of the Falcone tree, in via Notarbartolo.
Maria Falcone: supporting young minds - "The most beautiful thing is the movement that starts from the university's youth base, their desire to carry on the values of Giovanni, Paolo and Francesca must facilitate it. We all adults must continue to help young people, we have been encouraging children for years as a foundation. We must take advantage of the potential of young minds, Giovanni said repression is not enough to win the mafia ". So Maria Falcone speaking at the streaming rectors' conference, organized to remember Giovanni Falcone, Francesca Morvillo, the agents of the escort and all the victims of the mafia.
The police: the courage of the escort is a guide for young people - "The police on the notes of Silence, in the memorial of the fallen, remember with emotion and pride the escort agents Antonio Montinaro, Rocco Dicillo, Vito Schifani, Agostino Catalano, Walter Eddie Cosina, Vincenzo Li Muli, Emanuela Loi, Claudio Traina who, together with the judges Giovanni Falcone, Francesca Morvillo and Paolo Borsellino, were slaughtered 28 years ago by mafia barbarism. Much has been done but still much remains to be done. It is a duty to make people live every day that patrimony of values of legality and justice that those servants of the State, paying for it with their blood, have left us as a legacy. Their courage and their strength of spirit can act as a guide for the younger generations ". This is what we read in a police note.
Azzolina, the school is a bulwark of legality - "The State is there, the school is there. The school was recently offended by two episodes in Naples and Palermo, in the difficult neighborhoods where disabled students' tablets and PCs were also stolen I want to tell everyone that those who offend the school offend the state and the state is there to fight the mafia, to give answers because school is a bulwark of legality and always will be. " Education Minister Lucia Azzolina said it during #PalermoChiamaItalia, the initiative in memory of the massacres of Capaci and Via D'Amelio.