The Maurizio Costanzo show returns to the Parioli theater in the spring after 12 years, and for the great occasion the host wants Michele Santoro again at his side to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the historic Rai-Fininvest relay (then not yet Mediaset) which he took Judge Giovanni Falcone also leaves.
Since 2009, the broadcast has moved to the De Paolis studios on the Tiburtina "but with the new season it will return to the historical setting".
The same anchorman announced it when he opened the recording of the last episode of the Show season which will be broadcast on Channel 5.
"For thirty years Michele Santoro and I made a relay race against the mafia, and judge Falcone was the guest of the Parioli", said Costanzo welcoming Michele Santoro on stage, before repeating some excerpts from the interview to the hero judge. "Let's take the commitment to reopen with a relay race with you - said Costanzo - the author Pietrangeli will be missing - he added - but as survivors we will pick up from there", he added. And Santoro replied: "A relay that looks to the future".
It was September 26, 1991. Rai-Fininvest against the mafia. Rai3, with the live broadcast of 'Samarcanda' from the Biondo theater in Palermo, and Costanzo dal Parioli give life to the event in memory of Libero Grassi, the Sicilian businessman killed by the mafia. Among Santoro's guests in Palermo, Leoluca Orlando, Pietro Folena, Nando Dalla Chiesa; from Costanzo to Rome there are the Minister of Grace and Justice Claudio Martelli and the judges Francesco Di Maggio and Giovanni Falcone. Costanzo burns, assisted by the firefighters of the theater, a t-shirt with the words 'Mafia made in Italy'. But it is also the first time that the politician, at the time a regional deputy, Cuffaro appears on national screens, live from the Biondo Theater in Palermo, Cuffaro, vehemently lashes out against conductors and interviewees, and also talks about "mafia journalism ". Judge Giovanni Falcone, present in the broadcast, signaled Costanzo not to know him. Today, the mayor of Rome Gualtieri, who applauded the return of the Maurizio Costanzo Show at the Parioli Theater, was also recording the episode broadcast tomorrow by Maurizio Costanzo : "It is a wonderful thing that Costanzo returns to his home, in Parioli".