Sanremo 2022, Roberto Saviano: “The mud failed to soil the example of Falcone and Borsellino”

The stage of the Sanremo Festival is not only an opportunity to enjoy good music, but also a perfect showcase to launch messages capable of shaking and making people think, taking advantage of the immense audience gathered at the same time in front of the television. Like this, to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the attacks on Capaci and via D’Amelio, Here you are Roberto Saviano who, free of charge – we emphasize this for the malevolent – weaves a story capable of retracing the meaning of that sacrifice and helping to rediscover the greatness of two figures as Paolo Borsellino and Giovanni Falcone and a courage that has ensured that their disappearance was not in vain.

«Remembering is not a passive act but, literally, putting back in the heart. The heart, in fact, is the seat of memory. Remembering Falcone and Borsellino means bringing them back to life, feeling them beating in us “, explains Roberto Saviano, who takes advantage of the monologue to remember the sacrifice of many other men and women of justice who have ended up in the sights of the mafias, from Gaetano Costa to Alberto Giacomelli. “The reason that pushed the mafias to move forward has always been to focus on the fact that, the next day, they won’t talk about it anymore. And they also thought the same for Falcone and Borsellino. Today they are celebrated as heroes, but when they were alive they weren’t, ”adds Saviano, making an interesting parallel between yesterday’s mud machine and today’s one, contaminated by social media and the virality guaranteed by the Net.

“Falcone was accused of being an exhibitionist, to the point that the officers of the escort were no longer seen for what they were, but as part of a staging. Di Falcone even went so far as to say that the bag with 58 explosive sticks was put on his own. At the time there were no social networks, but there were haters. He preferred to bury them, because the delegitimization served to create distrust in who was on their side. The mud, however, did not manage to soil their example ». Then Roberto Saviano’s attention shifts to the young Rita Atria, daughter of the sick system of the mafia who, after having cherished the possibility of a better life promised her by Borsellino, in 1992 takes her own life following the attack that is taken away. She «she was desperate because she believed that the mafia had also taken away this possibility of life». Today, thirty years later, we know that’s not the case, if Sanremo can be used to move something in those who have not lived through those years, so be it.

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