Unscheduled for Schlein, the Palermitan invites her home 

Unscheduled for Pd secretary Elly Schlein at the end of the ceremony held this morning in Palermo to commemorate the mafia massacre in which 41-year-old Pio La Torre of the PCI and his driver Rosario Di Salvo were killed.

From one of the balconies of a building in via Li Muli, a few steps from the plaque commemorating the victims of Cosa Nostra, came the invitation to the secretary of the Democratic Party from Mrs. Silvana Cusimano.

"Secretary, do you want coffee?", She said to her from the balcony.

After a first polite refusal, the secretary accepted the offer but she preferred a fruit juice.

For Elly Schlein, a meeting of a few minutes with the hospitable Palermo family before continuing the Sicilian tour that will see her in Ragusa, Syracuse and Catania in the next few hours.

The national secretary of the Pd Elly Schlein has placed a laurel wreath in front of the plaque which, in via Li Muli, in Palermo, commemorates Pio La Torre and his driver, Rosario Di Salvo, killed by the mafia 41 years ago.

Alongside Schlein, among others, were the regional secretary of the Pd Anthony Barbagallo and the provincial secretary of Palermo, Rosario Filoramo, the mayor Lagalla, the son of the former secretary, the former minister Giuseppe Provenzano.

The secretary of the Democratic Party will visit Ragusa, Syracuse and Catania in the next few hours for an electoral round in view of the administrative elections.

Tomorrow you will participate in the procession that will take place in Portella della Ginestra where, in 1947, the bandit Salvatore Giuliano and his men shot the workers who were celebrating May 1st.

There were 11 dead and many wounded.