It was a Sunday, July 19, 1992the day the judge was killed Paolo Borsellino and five escort agents: Agostino Catalano, Emanuela Loi, Vincenzo Li Muli, Walter Eddie Cosina and Claudio Traina. The only survivor was the agent Antonino Vullo. At the moment of the explosion he was parking one of the cars of the escort, […]
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Via D’Amelio, photos of the massacre that killed Paolo Borsellino 30 years ago
July 19, 1992. A car bomb with 50 kilos of TNT explodes in via D’Amelio in Palermo killing the judge Paolo Borsellino and the five members of the escort Emanuela Loi, Agostino Catalano, Vincenzo Li Muli, Walter Eddie Cosina and Claudio Traina. Fifty-seven days earlier, on May 23, 1992, the mafia had struck and killed […]
Paolo’s house, all of Borsellino’s humanity
Paolo Borsellino teaches that even the most difficult enemy can be defeated. He did it as a magistrate, he still does it thirty years after his death in the massacre of via D’Amelio, on 19 July 1992, thanks to the memory of his work and his commitment carried out by many. How Borsellino saved my […]
30 years after the death of Falcone and Borsellino, the story of the writer Rosario Esposito La Rossa
For the title of his latest book he borrowed a verse from Caparezza. Rosario Esposito La Rossa, born in 1988, is known for being the first bookseller of Scampia in Naples with The Scugnizzeria, a cultural hub for the children of the area. This is how it was born We are all capable – Falcone […]
1992-2022, the Capaci massacre told to those who weren’t there
Giorgio Faletti sang it as “that crime, about those dead boys killed, thrown into the air like a rag, fallen to the ground like people who have torn to pieces with explosives”. It is the Capaci massacre. Twitter content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. On May 23, 1992, […]
Able thirty years later, the words against the mafia
“The mafia is by no means invincible,” he said Giovanni Falcone, «It is a human phenomenon and like all human phenomena it has a beginning, an evolution of its own and therefore will also have an end. But to win, all the best forces must be used ». Together with Paolo Borsellino he was part […]
Italy: 43 arrests in operation against Drageta
Forty-three people were arrested today during a special operation by police and carabinieri against members of the Calabrian mafia, the famous Drageta, who had infiltrated the financial fabric of Rome. More specifically, the effort of the two “godfathers” of Drageta, Antonio Carcho and Vincenzo Alvaro, aimed at acquiring commercial companies (mainly in the catering sector) […]
TeleJato closes, goodbye to the historic Sicilian broadcaster fighting the mafia
“The mafia did not succeed with its attacks, pieces of the court of Palermo did not succeed, but the state succeeds.” TeleJatoSicilian broadcaster that in over thirty years of life has told news, investigations and threats of organized crime on the territory between Partinico and Corleone, it goes out. This was announced by Pino Maniaci, […]
Italy: 70 convictions announced in major anti-mafia trial
Italian justice on Saturday dealt a severe blow to Drangeta, Italy’s most powerful mafia organization, by convicting 70 of its members and others who had links with it in the largest anti-mafia trial since the end of the year. of 1980. Judge Claudio Paris read out the verdicts of 91 defendants in the huge courtroom […]