The disruptive question was asked by Alfredo Morvillo. “In this city, is having made agreements with the mafia considered by everyone to be improper?” Francesca’s brother, Giovanni Falcone’s brother-in-law, wrote in the pages of “Repubblica Palermo” on the occasion of the thirty-first anniversary. of the Capaci massacre. A clear reference to the center-right council of mayor Roberto Lagalla, supported by the unpresentable Marcello Dell’Utri and Salvatore Cuffaro, both politicians convicted of mafia crimes. “Too often, citizens receive signals from above that invite them to live with environments that reek of the mafia”: Morvillo, the former Trapani prosecutor, did not mince words.
Morvillo: “Politics and the mafia, Falcone and Borsellino cannot be celebrated by those who live with those in collusion”
And, now, his words also sound like a criticism, not too veiled, of Maria Falcone, Giovanni’s sister, who during last year’s electoral campaign attacked the unpresentable (“Politics cannot afford sponsors that are not adamantine, Dell ‘Utri and Cuffaro are no’), this year, however, he signed an agreement with Lagalla to build a new anti-mafia museum. And he does not accept criticism. Rather, he calls for unity: «It is time to move forward – writes Maria Falcone in a letter to “República de Palermo” – to persevere in the search for the truth and at the same time stop using anti-mafia to make a career, build a boardwalk”. And again: “It is time not to let our guard down and at the same time build bridges between the different social components, expect commitments from those who want to join the effort for change, without criticizing a priori, perhaps revived by some home-grown acid.” propensity for presumption”. Strong words against those who “flood PhD comments”, against those who “play ping pong with memory, things have changed”, writes Falcone’s sister.
Maria Falcone: “Enough of the anti-mafia races and catwalks. Today I say to the city: let’s move forward together”
Thus, today will be the first May 23 of the center-right in the front row. In Rome, the majority will nominate Chiara Colosimo, the FdI deputy challenged by many relatives of mafia victims for the shadows of former relationships with subversive right-wing figures, to the presidency of the anti-mafia parliamentary commission. In Palermo, on the other hand, at the official demonstration in front of the bunker room, the president of the Region Renato Schifani will also speak, currently on trial in Caltanissetta for having been one of the “moles” of Antonello Montante, the former leader of Confindustria convicted on appeal to 8 years.
Morvillo has already announced that he will not go to the bunker classroom: he will be in the high school where his sister studied. Even Giuseppe Di Lello, magistrate of the historical anti-mafia group of Falcone and Borsellino, will not go to the demonstration with the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi. Morvillo wrote: «Palermo has the consistency of not participating in the commemorations, the city does not deserve it, Falcone and Borsellino do not deserve their memory to be tarnished by the ritual presence of characters who do not miss the opportunity to publicize politics-social coexistence with environments notoriously reminiscent of the mafia”. Maria Falcone defends her choice of a new path with this center-right: “Support that is not gifts, charity, clients, but unity at work, adherence to a project that is committed to young people and the community, an opportunity to create new spaces, places of life and not simulations of memories or even worse altars of memory to be whitewashed only at the end of the anniversaries».
