ROME (ITALPRESS) – “Forty-two years ago the Mafia attack tragically interrupted the human and professional career of Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa. With him lost his life his wife Emanuela Setti Carraro and agent Domenico Russo, who died a few days later of fatal wounds. That barbaric ambush against an exemplary servant of the Republic represented one of the most grim pages of organized crime’s attack on civil coexistence.” Thus the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, who adds, “The cowardly attack did not succeed, however, in attenuating the commitment to those values of legality and justice proper to our democracy, for the affirmation of which, in the various roles he held in the Carabinieri Corps and most recently as Prefect of Palermo, General Dalla Chiesa had fought. Years later, the memory of those who, like him, opposed terrorism and Mafia bullying, continues to challenge those with public responsibilities, civil society, the younger generations, each citizen. His figure, his ideal legacy live on today in the work of those who are personally committed against the Mafia and terrorism and show the entire national community the path of courage and responsibility.”
“Every day,” stresses the Head of State, “in different contexts, women and men from the Judiciary, law enforcement, public administration, the business world and the workforce, contribute their contributions to keep up their guard, to counter and denounce prevarication and violence, to recognize and foil new and insidious ways of criminal infiltration. The involvement of schools, other educational circles, and the media is essential so that a widespread culture of legality, which rejects any form of compromise with the mafia mentality, is increasingly established, strengthening democracy, development, and social cohesion. With these sentiments, I address an emotional thought to the Dalla Chiesa, Setti Carraro and Russo families, expressing the Republic’s feelings of solidarity and closeness.”
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