Italy on Thursday paid tribute to
Giovanni Falcone on the 27th anniversary of the Capaci bomb
attack in which the anti-mafia prosecutor was assassinated along
three bodyguards and his wife.
Falcone's friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino was killed
two months later by another huge Cosa Nostra bomb.
In a message, President Sergio Mattarella said Falcone's
sacrifice "became the engine of the resurgence of our
civilization, which gave strength to the effort to combat (the
Mafia) and make citizens' duty to do their part to drain the
swamps in which the Mafia live even more pressing".
Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini took part
in a ceremony at the bunker court in Palermo's Ucciardone
prison, where the big maxi-trial against Cosa Nostra members
took place in the 1980s and 1990s.
Palermo Mayor Leoluca Orlando did not attend that event.
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