Italian President Sergio Mattarella
said on Wednesday, the 26th anniversary of the 1992 slaying of
anti-mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone, that "the mafia will be
defeated".
Mattarella spoke from Capaci, a Sicilian town in the province
of Palermo, where Falcone was killed by a massive bomb under the
Palermo-Palermo Airport highway, along with his three bodyguards
and his wife, Italian magistrate Francesca Morvillo.
Falcone's friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino was killed
two months later by another huge Cosa Nostra bomb.
"The witness borne by Falcone and Borsellino will walk on the
legs of others, as Falcone himself used to say," Mattarella
said.
On Tuesday, Mattarella was at the port of Civitavecchia for
the departure of the anti-mafia Legality Ship, which arrived in
Palermo on Wednesday.
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