Rome, 13 July (LaPresse) – “Thirty-four years ago, Italy was suddenly forced to come to terms with something that was terrifying, but which was also an evil that, until then, so many had preferred to turn a blind eye to, play down or underestimate. It may seem absurd to us speaking about it today, but that is how it was. You couldn’t even utter its name. The Capaci massacre changed everything; no one could make excuses any longer. Deluding oneself that the issue did not exist, that the problem did not concern them, pretending not to know or even accepting to be an accomplice.” So said the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, at the unveiling ceremony for the Fiat Croma in which Giovanni Falcone and his wife Francesca Morvillo were travelling on 23 May 1992, at the ‘Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino’ Museum of the Present in Palermo. “ From that moment on, it was clear to everyone that Cosa Nostra was not a figment of the imagination, it was not something abstract, it was not something legendary; it was real and was prepared to do anything to carry out the criminal and subversive plan it had devised – namely, to assert that it was stronger than the State, that it could bend the institutions to its own sinister interests, that its power knew no bounds and that, therefore, no one could stand in its way” , said the Prime Minister.
Mafia: Meloni, the Capaci massacre changed everything; no one could make excuses any longer
Rome, 13 July (LaPresse) – “Thirty-four years ago, Italy was suddenly forced to come to terms with something that was terrifying, but which was also an evil that, until then, so many had preferred to turn a blind eye to, play down or underestimate. It may seem absurd to us speaking about it today, but that is how it was. You couldn’t even utter its name. The Capaci massacre changed everything; no one could make excuses any longer. Deluding oneself that the issue did not exist, that the problem did not concern them, pretending not to know or even accepting to be an accomplice.” So said the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, at the unveiling ceremony for the Fiat Croma in which Giovanni Falcone and his wife Francesca Morvillo were travelling on 23 May 1992, at the ‘Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino’ Museum of the Present in Palermo. “ From that moment on, it was clear to everyone that Cosa Nostra was not a figment of the imagination, it was not something abstract, it was not something legendary; it was real and was prepared to do anything to carry out the criminal and subversive plan it had devised – namely, to assert that it was stronger than the State, that it could bend the institutions to its own sinister interests, that its power knew no bounds and that, therefore, no one could stand in its way” , said the Prime Minister.
