Via D’Amelio massacre, the memory of Borsellino with Meloni (also to block the controversy) – Corriere.it

After four years of video messages and statements via Facebook, Giorgia Meloni returns to Palermo on the anniversary of the Via D’Amelio massacre, in which Paolo Borsellino, magistrate-icon of the Italian right, died. The last time that the leader of the Brothers of Italy came to participate in the traditional torchlight procession organized by the heirs of the Italian Social Movement (a party with which Borsellino sympathized in his youth) was in 2019, when she asked for a parliamentary commission of inquiry to thin out the too many omissions and scandalous shadows on the attack that also killed five escort agents: Agostino Catalano, Emanuela Loi, Vincenzo Li Muli, Walter Eddie Cosina and Claudio Traina.

Today the first time as premier, but I will not participate in the party appointment scheduled for the evening, limited to a morning episode. The official motivation are other commitments, the one leaked (but denied by Palazzo Chigi) are reasons of public order for fear of possible disputes. In reality, it is not usual for a prime minister to participate in commemorations of such significant events, and therefore Meloni’s presence will be limited to two institutional appointments: the placing of a wreath at the barracks of the Stock Department and, after a stop on the tombs of Falcone and Borsellino, a provincial committee for public order and safety in the prefecture, in the company of Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi and the police chief Vittorio Pisani, as well as local authorities.

fUntil a few days ago, the premier’s presence in Palermo was not foreseen, but the very recent controversies involving the government and the majority after the untimely declarations of the Minister of Justice Carlo Nordio on the crime of external competition in a mafia association, have convinced her and her staff to change their plans to cancel – at least in intention – any doubts about the executive’s willingness not to back down in the fight against organized crime. what Meloni will reiterate today in the Committee, and which he has already underlined by announcing a forthcoming decree law to prevent a recent ruling by the Court of Cassation from putting investigations and trials for crimes that have to do with the mafia, Camorra, ‘Ndrangheta and other groups at risk. similar. An intervention well seen by the same anti-mafia magistrates who in recent days have defended the legal construction of the external competition in the mafia association contested by Nordio, as did the Palermo prosecutor Maurizio De Lucia by answering a specific question from the president Chiara Colosimo, deputy of Brothers of Italy who instead will participate in the torchlight vigil.

After all, between today and Friday Palermo will be the destination of many post-missini exponents who (even more than in the past, after the conquest of Palazzo Chigi) intend to reclaim the legacy of Borsellino. At least on a par with the red agenda movement led by the magistrate’s brother, Salvatore Borsellino, who has always been and continues to be hostile towards those who have been and continue to be allies of Forza Italia, the party founded by Silvio Berlusconi and Marcello Dell’Utri, the latter has already been convicted of external competition in a mafia association and is still under investigation (like Berlusconi before he died, after repeated filings) for participation in the mafia massacres of 1993.

In the afternoon, the red agendas, together with the CGIL and other leftist acronyms, will enliven another procession that will arrive in via D’Amelio – where Elly Schlein will also be the secretariat of the Democratic Party – under the banner of the slogan Basta Stato-Mafia. AND Salvatore Borsellino has announced (nonviolent) protests against any vultures and hypocrites who bring fake crowns and honors. The rest of the Borsellino family has not participated in public commemorations for years, limiting themselves to an afternoon mass celebrated by a priest friend. The lawyer Fabio Trizzino, husband of Lucia Borsellino, the magistrate’s eldest daughter, will be in Caltanissetta where the sentence of the appeal trial against Matteo Messina Denaro is awaited, sentenced in the first instance to life imprisonment for the massacres in Capaci and via D’Amelio. Not a lack of respect – explains the lawyer -, but we prefer to be present in places where truth and justice are still sought. A part of the judiciary in the past has helped to muddy the waters, but subsequently another part has been busy unmasking the misdirections. This is why we continue to have faith in institutions such as Falcone and Borsellino had, who, however, were hindered by those same institutions during their lifetime. In the political sphere but also, and perhaps above all, within the judicial order of which they belonged. And we cannot fail to remember this, thirty-one years after their death.

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