33 years ago the Capaci massacre, attack on judge Falcone

It was May 23, 1992 when an enormous charge of explosives was detonated as the cars of Judge Giovanni Falcone and his escort agents passed by. In the Capaci massacre, at the hands of Cosa Nostra, Falcone, his wife Francesca Morvillo and the three escort agents lost their lives: Vito Schifani, Rocco Dicillo and Antonio Montinaro .

33 years after one of the most tragic events in Italian history, which marked a turning point in the fight against the mafia, numerous initiatives have been organized to renew the memory.

May 23, 1992, the white Croma where Giovanni Falcone, Francesca Morvillo and the driver Giuseppe Costanza (the only survivor) were. The car was gutted by the explosion of 500 kilos of TNT (Eligio Paoni/Contrasto)

In Palermo, the Falcone Foundation opens to the public the Museum of the Present dedicated to Falcone and Borsellino, at Palazzo Jung. The day will begin at 9:30 with the reception of institutional authorities, students and guests by the top management of the Falcone Foundation. The presence of, among others, the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi and the Minister of Justice Carlo Nordio is expected.

In the afternoon, at 4 pm, the sit-in in front of the Falcone tree in via Notarbartolo where at 5 pm Maria Falcone , sister of the judge and president of the Falcone Foundation, will speak. At 5:30 pm the former magistrate and president of the Senate Piero Grasso will read the names of the victims of the Capaci and via d'Amelio massacres and at 5:58 pm, the time of the massacre, the police bugler will play the silence .

The Tree in Memory of Giovanni Falcone 05/23/22 (Rainews)

Involved in many events, the students "to continue to build a future free from the mafia". Not only with the traditional "Ship of legality" , which set sail from Naples on Monday and will arrive in a few hours, precisely at 9, in Palermo, but also with "Tribunal calls school", an initiative organized by the Order of Lawyers, National Association of Magistrates and Network for Anti-Mafia Culture in Schools which includes readings in memory of the martyrs of Capaci and the solemn commemoration of the stra

For the XXXIII anniversary of the massacre, the Ministry of Education has decided to share with all Italian schools the screening of the documentary film "Falcone and Borsellino - The fire of memory", produced by the DEMS Department of the University of Palermo, within the project "UNIPA Workshop for Legality and the Contrast to the Mafia". It is a choral journey that tells the figures of Giovanni Falcone, Francesca Morvillo and Paolo Borsellino through the voices of those who loved them, supported them, followed them . Family members, colleagues, magistrates, journalists, university professors and students build a plural and profound narrative, capable of restoring humanity and commitment to those who paid with their lives for the choice to serve the State.

Falcone and Borsellino (Ansa)