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Today at Palermo at 16.58 as every year I will be at via D 'Amelio to commemorate Paolo Borsellino and escort agents Agostino [19659002] Catalan Emanuela Law Claudio Traina Vincenzo Li Muli and Walter [19659002] Eddie Cosina . I was 19 when I went down to the Sicilian capital. Since this year, I have never missed this appointment with history. As a citizen, as a journalist, as a teacher. It's a kind of civil duty that I feel as a responsibility and a commitment.
The place where the bomb exploded by a man of the state can not just stay something that belongs to the Sicilians. For years, we thought that Mafia was "their thing". Too late we realized that Cosa nostra and not only had taken root in North and in Europa . Today after the sentence of the judges of Corte of Caltanisetta confirmed that behind this page of history there is "one of more serious depistaggi of the Italian judicial history ", that street, this date should shake us, do not leave us alone. Yet, as it was said, Italians have memory that lasts as long as bad.
The responsibilities of this "government" can be found in via Amelio. On this road, there were too many podiums during these 26 years. I saw them one by one pbad this road: Clemente Mastella, Renato Schifani, Gianfranco Fini, Gianni Alemanno, Alfredo Mantovano, Francesco Musotto, Franco Marini, Giuliano Amato, Giorgia Meloni, Carlo Vizzini, Diego Cammarata, Roberto Maroni, Italo Bocchino, Fabio Granata, Irene Pivetti. But also Nicola Mancino, Giovanni Maria Flick, Luciano Violante, Rosy Bindi, Walter Veltroni and Dario Franceschini
These Italian politicians ask: who of the state kept silent? What do you know about this screening? What did you do to get to the truth?
The incomprehension of the state, the absence of repentant state question the policy because as always the responsibility of the magistracy but even more so politics that often in those years did like the three little monkeys putting their hands in front of their mouths, eyes and ears
Maybe someone forgot but also Silvio Berlusconi went through D & D # 39; Amelio. More than 20 years ago. It was in 1994, he had just been elected President of the Council . Berlusconi is in town for an institutional meeting . Remember that in Via D & # 39; Amelio Borsellino is dead and decides to go there. To achieve the arrival of someone important is the sister Rita who at the time is at home with a fractured foot. Under his house there is too much va application of the law . Around 4 pm you hear the intercom. He gets up with difficulty from the chair and on the other side of the receiver discovers that there is the prefect who says to him: "The Prime Minister would like to greet her."
Rita is in a dressing gown, she was not informed of this visit and no he is certainly able to receive the Prime Minister . A few moments pbad and the intercom resonates. He gets up from his chair to answer. He is colonel of Carabinieri ; he resumes the meeting with Berlusconi. Nothing to do. The intercom rings a third and fourth time, until the magistrate's sister makes a decision: "If you have to tell me something important, come to the intercom."
Berlusconi does not pray. He approaches, is a stone's throw from this tombstone and olive tree and asks: "What can we do to defeat the mafia?". "You are in government and you can do what you want, you have the power," he replies Rita Borsellino . Berlusconi answers: "If they let us work". But the magistrate's sister is not silent: "Even my brother did not let him work but he continued the same, so much so that he died here". At this moment Berlusconi has no more words: "If I permit, I will call it Rome more calmly". Rita never received this phone call and Berlusconi was no longer seen in Via D 'Amelio
Then there is the other Italia . That of those who have not forgotten and after 26 years wants to continue to remember. A Crema in recent days the boys of the Youth Council after cleaning the walls of the school facing off Falcone Borsellino (wanted place in 1999 by students of this magistral institute), they also wanted to repair the old plate, more legible, and place a new one at the foot of an olive tree. So they asked the municipal services to do this intervention and it is here that there is a little story that deserves to be told.
The offices told them to contact the company Barbati Marmi of Bagnolo cremasco to review the writings of the "old" plate and make a new one at the feet of the olive tree. A few days later, the company sent a photo of a beautiful marble plaque. At this point, the boys asked the details for payment to the city and here is the unexpected answer: "The plate we give it to you and to the city and we organize the other free".
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