Thousands of people from all over Italy on Tuesday took part in a march in the southern city of Locri for the national day of remembrance for the innocent victims of the mafia. The bishop's building in Locri was daubed with anti-police graffiti on the night between Sunday and Monday after President Sergio Mattarella blasted the mafia in a visit at the weekend.
The graffiti read "more work, fewer cops" and was widely interpreted as being a challenge to the State.
On Sunday Mattarella said that mafiosi "do not have honour".
Tuesday's march was headed by the families of victims who carried banners prepared by anti-mafia association Libera reading: "places of hope, witnesses of beauty".
A group of minors who arrived in Calabria on migrant boats in recent months carried a huge peace flag.
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