(ANSA) - ROME, 03 SEPT - "Thirty-nine years after the tragic ambush of September 3, 1982 in Palermo, I pay a touching tribute to the memory of the Prefect Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, of Mrs. Emanuela Setti Carraro and of the agent Domenico Russo, victims of the mafia ferocity. their barbaric killing represented one of the most serious moments of the attack of organized crime on the institutions and on the men who impersonated them, but, at the same time, it ended up accentuating even more an unbridgeable gap between the wounded city and that mafia that continued to want to determine its destinies with the intimidation and death ". Thus the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, in a statement.
"To that odious challenge the national community as a whole, even if struck and shaken, knew how to react by making strong the same determined and lucid energy of which Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa had already given an example, during his brilliant journey in the Carabinieri, in the commitment to meet criminal and terrorist organizations. Despite the shortness of his assignment in Palermo - continues Mattarella - the sacrifice of the Prefect Dalla Chiesa and his ideal legacy helped to guide many of the choices that, in the following years, allowed a qualitative leap in the action of contrasting phenomena of mafia infiltration into the economy and the Public Administration.More incisive rules and powers of coordination gave new vigor to the strategies to combat organized crime and strengthened the confidence of the public apparatus that fought it; while, in civil society, a feeling of active citizenship grew, bringing a culture of rights opposed to the logic of belonging and privilege. In memory of that extreme sacrifice, I renew to the Dalla Chiesa, Setti Carraro and Russo families the feelings of closeness and participation of mine and of the whole country ", concludes the Head of State. (ANSA).I renew to the families From the Church, Setti Carraro and Russo the feelings of closeness and participation of mine and of the whole country ", concludes the Head of State. (ANSA).I renew to the families From the Church, Setti Carraro and Russo the feelings of closeness and participation of mine and of the whole country ", concludes the Head of State. (ANSA).
