ALERMO (ITALPRESS) – For the first time, the four Italian cities affected by the 1992-1993 Mafia massacre will be linked simultaneously for March 21, Memorial and Commitment Day in remembrance of the victims of all mafias.
The initiative is organized by the Universities of Palermo, Milan (Statale and Cattolica), Roma Tre and Florence. The event, “Universities against the Mafia, the memory of the massacres of 92/93 to build the future,” will begin at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow, Friday, March 21 at the venues of the universities involved.
Ambrogio Crespi’s docufilm “Falcone and Borsellino. The Fire of Memory,” made by the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the University of Palermo as part of the “Workshop for Legality and Memory” project funded by the MUR.
At 11:15 a.m., Fiammetta Borsellino, daughter of Paolo, the magistrate murdered in Palermo in the July 19, 1992, Via D’Amelio massacre, will speak via national video link from Palermo. Brothers Manfredi and Lucia Borsellino, meanwhile, will answer students’ questions in Florence and Rome, respectively.
Messages will be read by the Minister of University and Research, Anna Maria Bernini, the President of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into the phenomenon of mafias and other criminal associations, including foreign ones, Chiara Colosimo, and the President of the Commission of Inquiry and Vigilance into the phenomenon of mafia and corruption in Sicily, Antonello Cracolici. Debate will then take place at the various venues with the participation of university students and the presence of university chancellors and various professors, magistrates and experts.
At the University of Palermo, at the former Cinema Edison (Piazza Napoleone Colajanni, 3), with Fiammetta Borsellino, among others, composer Marco Betta, artist Beatrice Quinta and journalist Elvira Terranova will speak. Former anti-Mafia pool magistrate Giuseppe Di Lello (among the protagonists of the docufilm), Maria Gabriella Ricotta coauthor of the docufilm and Gabrio Forti, director of the “Federico Stella” High School on Criminal Justice, will also be at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.
At the State University of Milan, Milan Dda coordinator Alessandra Dolci and journalist Liana Milella, among others, will speak. At the Department of Law of Roma Tre, in via Ostiense 161, with antimafia legislation lecturer Ilaria Merenda and with Lucia Borsellino there will be Marco Bisogni, magistrate component of the Csm, Vice President of the European Parliament Pina Picierno, historian Enzo Ciconte and journalist Enrico Bellavia.
In Florence, in the Polo delle Scienze Sociali, Via delle Pandette 35, Manfredi Borsellino will be present and former magistrate Ignazio De Francisci (a member of the anti-Mafia pool along with Falcone and Borsellino) will speak, with the Director of the Department of Political Science at the University of Palermo, Costantino Visconti, and Daniele Gabbrielli, Vice President of the Association of the Families of the Victims of Via dei Georgofili.
“The University of Palermo is proud to join with those of Milan, Florence and Rome in remembering Falcone and Borsellino and all the victims of mafia violence,” says University of Palermo Chancellor Massimo Midiri, “The docufilm we have made and made available to the other universities is not only a tribute to the memory of Falcone and Borsellino, but also a bridge to the future, that is, a tool of education-information and critical solicitation for the entire citizenry aimed at raising public debate and awareness of everyone on the crucial issue of the fight against the mafias, a tool that best embodies the university’s Third Mission.”
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