The remains of the car in which Giovanni Falcone and Francesca Morvillo were travelling have been on display since this morning along the path of the Open Air Museum, on Corso Mazzini, in the heart of Cosenza.
The police chief of the Bruzio capital, Joseph Cannizzaro, organized a whole day of events in memory of Paolo Borsellino, a colleague and friend of Falcone, who was murdered along with 5 police escorts on July 19, 32 years ago in Palermo. The men and women of the State Police set up stands next to the case containing the remains of the murdered judge’s car, to meet people and explain what happened in 1992 in Italy. Police officers from the Scientific and Highway Patrol explained to the young people who crowded into the city’s “living room” the investigative and control activities that the police force carries out every day in Calabria as in the rest of the country. 7
Tonight, in collaboration with the Libera association, the anti-racket association “Mani libere” and the Press Club “Maria Rosaria Sessa”, in the main square of San Fili, there will be a public debate of extreme importance on the theme: “Paolo Borsellino, a man left alone”. Speakers will include the police commissioner Cannizzaro, the vice president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, Monsignor Francesco Savino, the district attorney of Catanzaro, Vincenzo Capomolla, Tina Montinaro, widow of Antonio Montinaro, head of the bodyguard of Giovanni Falcone who died with him in Capaci, Alfredo Lio, son of the Carabinieri corporal Renato Lio, gold medal for civil valor, killed in Soverato by a ‘ndrangheta member in August 1991. The testimony of Emanuela Loi, niece of the policewoman who died with Borsellino in via D’Amelio in Palermo, will also be presented. Loi, like her aunt killed by the mafia, currently serves in the police force.
The historical introduction to the facts will be given by the journalist and writer and head of department of Gazzetta del Sud, Archangel Badolati. The mayor of San Fili, the lawyer Linda Cribari will welcome the guests. Greetings from Libera will be brought by Franca Ferrami, coordinator of the Cosenza garrison, those of the Circolo della Stampa, by Franco Lorenzo and for the anti-racket association will intervene Pierluigi Ferramison of a victim of the ‘ndrangheta: his father, Lucio, was murdered in Guardia Piemontese in 1981 because he had reported the extortionists who had asked him for the “pizzo”. The demonstration will take place in Piazza “Adolfo Mauro” starting at 9 pm. The administrators of many municipalities in the Cosenza area, magistrates and high-ranking members of all the police forces will be present. This is the largest demonstration to be held today in Calabria to remember Paolo Borsellino and it takes place in an area hit by the dissolution of the municipality of Rende for mafia reasons and by major anti-mafia operations conducted in the last four years both in the area of the capital and along the Ionian and Tyrrhenian coasts as well as in the Esaro Valley.