The mural dedicated to Sergio Cosmaithe former director of the Cosenza prison killed in 1985 by the ‘Ndrangheta. Unknown people have dirty with excrement the image of Cosmai, murdered because he had interrupted the domain of the Cosenza clans on the prison structure. Stops the condemnation of the mayor Franz Caruso: “A barbarism from every point of view that the city cannot tolerate and that condemns strongly, reaffirming the values of legality that as a municipal administration we carry on with pride and determination”.
The mural is located in via Padre Giglio, dedicated to legality and justice as part of the urban regeneration project proposed by a well -known entrepreneur from Cosenza and immediately married by the mayor Caruso. “I gave arrangement to clean this shame immediately – continues Franz Caruso – that smears and affects not only the work itself but also what it represents. Sergio Cosmai, former director of the Cosenza district house, barbarously assassinated in 1985, is in fact a courageous example of servant of the state who, although aware of the serious personal risk, has opposed organized crime by affirming the values of legality. This is why the gesture of smearing the effigy of Cosmai with excrement goes beyond incivilityrepresenting a scarring in the memory of a man who paid his attachment to justice and state with his life, whose example must also be an antidote against overwhelming and violence, but it is also an attack on legality, aware or not, it matters little, which deserves only blame. On behalf of the entire city, – concludes the mayor – therefore, I reject this ignoble and cowardly act with indignation and recruitment “.