Uffizi Gallery Director Eike
Schmidt told ANSA a year from his appointment Wednesday that he
would like to get the Vasari Corridor opened to all the
gallery's visitors on the 25th anniversary of a Cosa Nostra bomb
outrage near the iconic Florentine gallery, on May 27, 2018. "On
the anniversary of that huge tragedy, we could launch a great
message of courage against the mafia: the message of a museum
and a city which are opening and are not afraid of organised
crime," he said. The via dei Georgofili bombing was carried out
by by the Sicilian Mafia very early in the morning of 27 May
1993, killing five people. It was part of a wider Mafia campaign
of bombing against heritage sites which killed 10 another five
people in Milan and damaged two historic Rome churches.
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