A day to remember Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. Agrigento Italian capital of culture 2025 pays homage tomorrow to the two magistrates killed by the mafia in the massacres of Capaci and via D’Amelio together with Francesca Morvillo and the escort agents Antonio Montinaro, Rocco Dicillo, Vito Schifani, Agostino Catalano, Emanuela Loi, Eddie Walter Cosina, Vincenzo Li Muli and Claudio Traina.
A non -random date that of June 21, in the middle of those terrible days, between May 23 and July 19, ’92 which changed the history of the country. The event will take place starting at 10 am in the Pirandello Theater In the presence of the civil and military authorities, of the leaders of the judicial offices of Palermo and Agrigento, of the police and the mayors. The event, strongly desired by the president of the Agrigento 2025 Foundation Maria Teresa Cucinotta and to which the families of the victims of the massacres were invited, will open with the inauguration in the atrium of the theater of the Ansa photographic exhibition “The legacy of Falcone and Borsellino”edited by journalists Francesco Nicastro and Franco Nuccio.
The exhibition reconstructs the parallel lives of the two magistrates, from childhood in the Palermo district of Kalsa to their tragic end, through the private shots of the Falcone and Borsellino families and the archive photos of the ANSA. The exhibition, inaugurated for the first time in 2012 in Palermo by the then head of the state Giorgio Napolitano, over the years has been continuously updated and hosted in various institutional offices such as the Chamber of Deputies, the European Parliament of Brussels or the ESCA headquarters in Vienna but above all was visited by thousands of children from the schools throughout Italy thanks also to the collaboration with the Ministry of Education, the Sicilian Region, the Regional School Office and the Forensic Movement.
Student delegations will also be present tomorrow in Agrigento, despite the closure of the school year. Among them also the boys of the National boarding school in Palermo attended by Giovanni Falcone, now named after the magistrate, and the young musicians of the Toscanini Conservatory of Ribera who will play the national anthem. Now after the deck by the Chamber of the Sedation of the Sedation of the Sedation Coacotta and the mayor of Agrigasotetta and the Mayor of Agrigentotta Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances Frances France, the documentary of the exhibition as the title of the exhibition will be projected and who tells the human and professional events as Falcon and Borsllino through the testimonies of family like Maria Dadna and Rita Bersllus, who did the magistrates who as not as their own as the Author as they as Leonard like the as Leonard, at LEADRO, of the Rhis, as Leonard, at the, who were as Leonard, of the, as Leonard, of the as Leonard, of the, as Leonard, of the as Leonardo Guarrantare, at the event of Garno.. Maxiprocesso Pietro Grasso and the prosecutor Giuseppe Ayala, as well as colleagues and journalists. At the end of the projection on the stage of the Pirandello Theater “Il Last Summer” will be staged, a text by Claudio Fava who features the actors Simone July as protagonists, who plays Giovanni Falcone, and Giovanni Santangelo as Paolo Borsellino directed by Chiara Callegari directed.
A theatrical show with a strong emotional impact that was represented in Italy and abroad and in the headquarters of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.