Twenty years have passed since that tragic afternoon of October 16, 2005, when the Hon. Francesco Fortugno, vice president of the Regional Council of Calabria, was murdered in the atrium of Palazzo Nieddu del Rio in Locri. A crime that profoundly shook Italy, revealing the shadows of organized crime and leaving an open wound in the country’s civil conscience. Today, two decades after that day, we meet the Hon. Maria Grazia Laganà Fortugno, doctor, parliamentarian, widow of Francesco, to retrace together the path of memory, justice and commitment. An interview that is not just a memory, but a living testimony of a battle that continues: that for legality, for the truth, for a Calabria free from fear.
How does the memory of that afternoon of October 16, 2005 live on today, twenty years later?
«It is a deep wound that has indelibly marked the course of our lives, mine and that of my children. Today I feel the need and at the same time the duty to keep the memory of what happened alive, so that this tragedy can generate a movement of awakening in the so-called civil society and in particular among young people. Franco’s, therefore, is a memory constantly present in my life and in that of my family, a light that continues to inspire and guide every choice and every behavior.”
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