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Massacre Capaci: white sheets not to forget

2020-05-22T21:11:18.457Z


Sheets on the balconies of institutional offices too, memories and streaming shows, remote meetings. (HANDLE)


(ANSA) - PALERMO, MAY 22 - Sheets on the balconies also of institutional offices, memories and streaming shows, remote meetings. Palermo will remember without the parades and the ships of legality the attack by Capaci which 28 years ago cost the life of Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesca Morvillo and three men of the escort, Antonio Montinaro, Rocco Di Cillo and Vito Schifani.
    Tomorrow will be a day lived differently from the past, due to the health emergency, but with a look at current events which indicate a constant presence of the mafia also in its economic dimension. This is evidenced by a new confiscation of assets for over 150 million to an entrepreneur from Cinisi, Andrea Impastato, figurehead of Bernardo Provenzano and Salvatore Lo Piccolo. Another "treasure" that the state definitively snatches from the bosses' hands just on the eve of the anniversary of the Capaci massacre.
    The exposure of the sheets, which refers to a civil society campaign launched after the 1992 attack, was born from an impulse from the Falcone Foundation and #PalermochiamaItalia who chose a slogan to summarize the meaning of the initiative: "My balcony is a square. " The sheets will appear not only on the balconies of many Palermitans but also on the facades of the Police Headquarters, the Prefecture, the Municipality, Villa Pajno, the prefect's residence, the CGIL and Palazzo Gulì, home of the "No Mafia Memorial". The Giuseppe Impastato center, which manages it, will exhibit a sheet for the victims of Capaci and one for the doctors and nurses who died while facing the Covid. Compared to the past, the central part of the program will no longer be the meeting with young people and schools in the Ucciardone bunker room. The web will be the virtual space where many events will be proposed. The busy program will open, as always, at 9 with the laying of flowers in front of the stele of the highway that reminds of the massacre. The assembly of rectors of the four Sicilian universities will follow at 10:00, open to contributions from magistrates, men of culture and institutions. There will also be an intervention by the minister of university and research, Gaetano Manfredi. At 12 noon there will be a suffrage mass in the church of San Domenico, the Pantheon of the illustrious Palermitans who also welcomes the remains of Falcone. Intense contribution from the world of entertainment. On Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 the web TV of the Massimo theater will propose two investigative works, "Le parole rubate" and "I traitori", by journalists Gery Palazzotto and Salvo Palazzolo. The blues version of "Le parole rubate" will be broadcast on Rai Radio 3 at 3 pm tomorrow. Other shows will be offered on social channels and on the sites of the Brass Group, the Falcone Foundation and Quarto Savona Quindici, the group dedicated to the three men of the escort of Falcone. And finally the closing of the day at 17:58, the time of the massacre. A flash mob will ideally unite the whole of Italy, with people who will appear on the balconies to expose a white sheet. In front of the Falcone tree the silence will be played without the crowd that is usually found here converging from various processions. At the same time in the garden of the Lungaro barracks will be placed the Quarto Savona Quindici display case with the twisted remains of the escort car and the "Choral of silence" of the playwright Vincenzo Pirrotta will be represented with the participation of Salvo Ficarra and Valentino Picone, of actors of the Biondo theater and some musicians. (HANDLE).

Source: ansa

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