On the night of January 18, 1994, during an external service, near the 420 km of the A-2 Salerno-Reggio Calabria, the chosen appointments Antonino Fava And Vincenzo Garofaloeffective to the Radiomobile rate of the Palmi Company, suspicious of a car, approached to carry out a check. It was then that numerous shots were fired from the car at the address of the military who were mortally injured. The subsequent investigations made it possible to bring the ambush back to a criminal strategy, proper to the gangs of ‘Ndrangheta Calabrese and the Sicilian mafia, which in the 90s was particularly aggressive towards the institutions and their representatives.
Today, on the 31st anniversary of that event, the carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Reggio Calabria, in the presence of Gen. B. Riccardo SciutoCommander of the “Calabria” carabinieri legion and the civil, military and judicial authorities together with the families of the victims, recalled their colleagues who fell in the vile attack. The commemoration began in Palmi, at the Concatadrale, with the implementation of the fallen military, officiated by the ser. Giuseppe AlbertiBishop of the Diocese Oppido Mamertina – Palmi, and then continue, with a deposition of a laurel wreath, at the parking area of the highway before the release of Scilla, where the attack was perpetrated and where today it is located The monument to the memory of the 2 carabinieri. The military and family members did not fail, also this year, to make their presence felt, as evidence of the excindable constraint that binds the military in service over time, the comrades fallen in the fulfillment of the duty and the families who have lost the their dear.