Florence marks 30-year anniversary of Georgofili Massacre

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 27 - Florence on Friday night-Saturday morning marked the 30-year anniversary of the Georgofili Massacre in which a Cosa Nostra bomb near the Uffizi Gallery killed five people outside the Accademia dei Georgofili, an agronomy institute in the Tuscan capital.
    The five victims of the Georgofili mafia massacre were commemorated overnight in Florence.
    Thirty years after the tragedy, authorities and hundreds of people paid tribute to them with the laying of a wreath at the site of the explosion, at the exact time when the attack took place on 27 May 1993: 1:04 am.
    Among those present were the Mayor of Florence Dario Nardella, the President of the Region of Tuscany Eugenio Giani and the Undersecretary for Justice Andrea Delmastro.
    The bombing was part of a wave of Sicilian Mafia bombings in 1993 aimed at hitting back against a State crackdown following the bombing deaths of magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino a year earlier, in May and July 1992.
    The Mafia bombings in 1993 killed 10 people and damaged art and religious sites in Rome, Florence and Milan. (ANSA).