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Massacre in via dei Georgofili, commemoration in Florence

2022-05-27T12:25:06.917Z


Twenty-nine years ago, 5 people died (ANSA)    With a silent procession, in the presence of CSM vice president David Ermini, last night a procession marched in Florence for the 29th anniversary of the Georgofili massacre, which on the night between 26 and 27 May 1993 cost the lives of five people and caused damage to the artistic heritage of the Uffizi Gallery. At 1:04, the time of the car bomb, a floral wreath was placed at the site of the


   With a silent procession, in the presence of CSM vice president David Ermini, last night a procession marched in Florence for the 29th anniversary of the Georgofili massacre, which on the night between 26 and 27 May 1993 cost the lives of five people and caused damage to the artistic heritage of the Uffizi Gallery.

At 1:04, the time of the car bomb, a floral wreath was placed at the site of the attack.

Twenty-nine years ago the massacre of via dei Georgofili in Florence



   The procession started from the nearby Piazza della Signoria to arrive at the nearby via dei Georgofili.

Present, among others, the mayor of Florence Dario Nardella, the president of the Tuscany Region Eugenio Giani, the chief prosecutor of Florence Giuseppe Creazzo, the former Minister of Justice Alfonso Bonafede, and representatives of the association among the families of the victims of the massacre . 

"Florence and Tuscany do not forget the massacre of the Georgofili. We do not want to forget the night between 26 and 27 May 1993 in which 5 people, including two children, were killed by the mafia. For the victims and for the whole country, no we must never stop seeking the truth. "

The Forza Italia deputy and undersecretary of state for relations with the parliament Deborah Bergamini writes on Twitter.

   On the 29th anniversary of the Via Dei Georgofili massacre in Florence, Sarzana remembers Dario Capolicchio, the young Sarzanese student who died, at the age of only 22, on May 27, 1993. This morning the mayor of Sarzana Cristina Ponzanelli, in the presence of Marco Lorenzo Baruzzo representing the Free La Spezia Association, he placed a bouquet of flowers in front of the commemorative plaque in the square dedicated to the young Sarzanese victim of the cowardly attack that took place in the Tuscan capital.

Subsequently, the first town went to the urban cemetery to place the flower pillow sent by the Municipality of Florence to the city of Sarzana as a sign of homage for the death of its young citizen on Dario's grave.

"It is also in our memory that we find the strength to continue fighting the mafias,

for this we remember all the victims and we remember Dario - said Ponzanelli -.

Memory is in fact commitment and honoring those who paid with their lives for the inhumanity of the mafias and their violence.

Memory is a commitment to call against indifference towards those who have offended the most essential values ​​of civil life, which organized crime tries, in every way, to trample and oppress.

Thanks to the mayor of Florence who, with his municipality, wanted to participate in our ceremony ".

to trample and oppress.

Thanks to the mayor of Florence who, with his municipality, wanted to participate in our ceremony ".

to trample and oppress.

Thanks to the mayor of Florence who, with his municipality, wanted to participate in our ceremony ".

On the Georgofili massacre "at the judicial level Florence has reached 90% of the judicial truth. According to the family association, 10% is still missing and it concerns the role of two people still to be clarified. Florence has played a fundamental role in understanding the phenomenon mafia and its repression. We hope for a public debate on this remaining 10% which concerns the competitors external to the mafia, who exist. suggest ".

Thus the lawyer of the civil party of the association Among the families of the victims of the via dei Georgofili massacre, and spokesman,

Source: ansa

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