Twenty-nine years have passed since judge Paolo Borsellino was brutally killed in an explosion in Palermo.
Twenty-nine years have passed since judge Paolo Borsellino was brutally killed in an explosion in Palermo. On July 19, 1992, five officers of the escort were also murdered together with the magistrate, Agostino Catalano, Emanuela Loi, Vincenzo Li Muli, Walter Eddie Cosina and Claudio Traina.
Since then, the "Via D'Amelio massacre" has become the symbol - together with the "Capaci massacre" a few days earlier - of a battle that Borsellino and Falcone had been carrying on for years: a silent and slowed fight on all sides . Complicated by infiltrations, deceptions, blackmail.
"Politics and the Mafia are two powers that live on the control of the same territory: either they go to war or they come to an agreement", said Borsellino. And he could see for a long time.
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He and Giovanni Falcone belonged to the anti-mafia pool that brought the investigations to the Palermo maxi trial against the Cosa Nostra. 19 life sentences, including those in Totò Riina and Bernardo Provenzano, 2665 years in prison, 11 and a half billion lire in fines and 114 acquittals.
Yet, almost 30 years later, there has been no real reconstruction of the facts. Because?
Today, as every year, we remember that day, and on the 29th anniversary of the via D'Amelio massacre, a new mural reproduces the face of judge Paolo Borsellino. This is the work Andrea Buglisi created as part of the Capable Spaces-Capaci Community project, an initiative of the Falcone Foundation and which completes the Gate of the Giants and is added to the portrait of Giovanni Falcone, delivered on 23 May.
BORSELLINO: MARIA FALCONE, HER MEMORY IS INDELIBLE "In this 29th anniversary of the Via D'Amelio massacre ...
Posted by Giovanni Falcone Foundation on Monday, July 19, 2021
The work covers an area of over 900 square meters, on a six-storey building in via Sampolo, near via D'Amelio: on one side Paolo Borsellino, on the other Giovanni Falcone.
Two different personalities but united by a single, strong and all-encompassing goal. They arise from the Bunker classroom, tattooed on the high-rises of the sack of Palermo that have fought so much, now to reassure us with their presence, now to challenge us to never be indifferent, concludes Buglisi.
Source: Falcone Foundation
