Today, on the thirty-fourth anniversary of the Capaci massacre, the customary ritual of institutional mourning begins, often marked by hypocrisy and formalism, which some have aptly defined as the "industry of popular mourning" and others as a "celebration of whitewashed tombs, beautiful on the outside but filled, on the inside, with dead men's bones and every kind of rot."
This intentionally clear introduction of mine arises from the persistent instrumental use that has been made for too long of the "holy cards of John and Paul", evoked from time to time according to the convenience of the various factions in the field.
It is well known that Giovanni Falcone's thinking on the necessary specialization of the public prosecutor in the new accusatory procedure was bent to the needs of those in favor of a "yes" vote in the referendum on justice, just as, not infrequently, his method and analyses were inappropriately invoked, as was his high political and institutional profile.
But what has been most disconcerting in recent times is the questioning of the motive for the 1992 and 1993 massacres, where it has been established in court, with irrevocable and unequivocal sentences, that the two anti-mafia heroes were killed because they were the architects of the definitive convictions handed down at the maxi-trial and, as for Borsellino, also because, after Falcone's death, he was considered the most dangerous enemy of Cosa Nostra.
Some well-informed political circles, however, intend to argue that the motives for the 1992 massacres were different and, in particular, that there were competing reasons attributable to the business interests of Cosa Nostra, believed to be in business with financial and business groups from Northern Italy operating in Sicily.
Now, given that Cosa Nostra has never neglected any relationship capable of procuring money or alliances with powerful forces, and that this very ability to become a system lies a key part of its criminal strength, we must ask ourselves why we persist in focusing solely on business interests, without considering the shadowy and powerful alliances the mafia organization forged over the 1990s.
