The Prime Minister pays tribute to Paolo Borsellino: “A model of justice and legality, his courage and integrity are a gift. This date is still an open wound for those who believe in a just Italy”
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni left an armored Lungaro Barracks in Palermo around 9.30am, where she went to pay homage to the victims of the Via D’Amelio massacre at the Stocks Department, with the Minister of the Interior, Matteo, also present Piantedosi and the police chief Vittorio Pisani.
From here the escort crews of judge Paolo Borsellino left on 19 July 1992: in addition to the judge, state police escort agents Agostino Catalano, Emanuela Loi, Vincenzo Li Muli, Walter Eddie Cosina and Claudio Traina lost their lives.
Present, in addition to the local authorities, and some family members of the victims, were also the attorney general of Palermo Lia Sava, the president of the court of appeal Matteo Frasca, and the mayor Roberto Lagalla. She then went to the places where the judges Paolo Borsellino and Giovanni Falcone are buried, to the cemetery of Santa Maria di Gesù and to the church of San Domenico. Followed by a meeting of the Order and Security Committee in the prefecture.
Giorgia Meloni reiterated, paying homage to the places of Falcone and Borsellino, that “the battle against the mafia can be won” because “the State is there”. The leader of the Brothers of Italy then explained how “controversy is good for those we fight against” and that “only mafiosi can challenge me”. In the end, she reminds us, “facts and not opinions count.”
The interview with the Corriere
In a letter to Corriere della Sera the Prime Minister renews his “personal commitment, and that of the entire Government, against the mafias” and explains that he will preside
“the Committee for public order and security to take stock of the work carried out on the fight against organized crime that the institutions, at all levels, are carrying out”.
“I can only be profoundly proud of the fact that the government I preside over today has had, from its first day, the determination and courage necessary to face the mafia cancer head on”
“The facts prove it”, explains the prime minister. We have secured fundamental measures such as the restriction of penitentiary benefits, and if today mafia bosses of the caliber of Matteo Messina Denaro are detained under the 41 bis regime it is precisely due to this commitment”.
“We have unblocked hiring in the police forces” continues the letter, “we have sided with the magistrates and with those in the area who lead the battle against the mafia, we are working on a provision that gives an authentic interpretation of what must be understood as ‘organised crime crimes’ and which avoids the risk of serious crimes going unpunished as a result of a recent ruling by the Court of Cassation”