Palermo remembers the 28th anniversary of the Via D'Amelio massacre. Between demonstrations in the symbolic places of the attack costing the life of judge Paolo Borsellino and agents Agostino Catalano, Emanuela Loi, Claudio Traina, Vincenzo Li Muli, Eddie Walter Cosina, and direct streaming, also this year, despite the restrictions imposed by the pandemic institutions, associations and the world of schools will commemorate the judge murdered by the mafia and the policemen who died with him on 19 July 1992.
28 years have passed between trials, misdirections, investigations that have not shed full light on all levels of involvement in the massacre. As the chairman of the Anti-Mafia commission, Nicola Morra points out: "the mafia maize has effectively ended their lives", but "more than the maize have made inertia, omissions, negligence and fearfulness". "It is a fact that pieces of the state have flirted with the antistate, that still a firm, rigorous and unavoidable anti-mafia culture is not a collective heritage", observes Morra recalling a quote by Paolo Borsellino: "they will kill me, but it will not be a revenge of the mafia, the mafia does not take revenge. Perhaps those who materially kill me will be mafia, but those who wanted my death will be others. " And not to forget and pay tribute to the victims of the stragista season of Cosa nostra, debates, shows, testimonials from teachers and students, from the world of politics, associations, civil society that will continue throughout the weekend are planned.
The institutional celebrations see the Ministry of Education at the forefront and are organized with the "Paolo e Rita Borsellino" Study Center, the Municipality of Palermo, the Free University of Enna, the "Born to read - Sicily" Association. school is at the forefront in defending the value of memory. A memory that plays a fundamental role in the fight against the mafias - says Education Minister Lucia Azzolina -. The sacrifice of Paolo Borsellino, Giovanni Falcone, Francesca Morvillo and men and women of their stocks marked the beginning of a phase of new awareness and intransigence, especially among young people. A change of which the school is the custodian and guarantor. Where there is school, there is a garrison of legality and there is is the state. " Today, at the Tree of Peace in via D'Amelio, the event "Resilience, Resistance, Responsibility" is streamed live. Sunday from 9, appointment with "Via D'Amelio for tomorrow's citizens". The live broadcasts will be broadcast on the Facebook page of the "Paolo e Rita Borsellino" Study Center. Tomorrow morning the winning students of the fifth edition of the contest "That fresh scent of freedom" on the theme of legality will be awarded. The competition is part of the activities envisaged by the memorandum of understanding between Miur and the "Paolo e Rita Borsellino" study center, recently renewed by the head of the human resources department of the Giovanna Boda. In the evening, forty children from the "Sandro Pertini" schools and from the "Giovanni Falcone" Comprehensive School, damaged by vandal raids, will participate in the final ceremonies. Furthermore, on the 19th, at 8.30 pm, a commemorative ceremony with the deposition of laurel wreaths will be held at the Police Headquarters of Palermo. The actress Pamela Villoresi, director of the Biondo Stabile theater, will read some passages from the book "I will tell you all the stories I can", by Agnese Borsellino. The evening will close with the Palermo actor Alessio Vassallo who will voice a "Martian" interview with judge Paolo Borsellino, written by the son of the magistrate, Manfredi.
