"The Via D'Amelio massacre, two months after the Capaci massacre, has profoundly affected the country's conscience . It represented the culmination of a subversive plan aimed at undermining democratic institutions and the very freedom of Italians." This was stated by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella , on the anniversary of the Via D'Amelio attack, plotted by the Mafia to kill Judge Paolo Borsellino on July 19, 1992, in which Emanuela Loi, born in Cagliari and resident in Sestu, and a member of his security detail, also lost her life.
"With the contribution of the men and women of the police force, the judiciary, and the institutions, that subversive plot was defeated. The Republic has shown itself to be stronger, capturing and convicting the perpetrators and instigators," added the Head of State.
Mattarella then remembered the victims: "Paolo Borsellino paid with his life for his commitment as a magistrate, and with him were killed five servants of the State, whose names are forever inscribed in the memory of the Republic: Emanuela Loi, Agostino Catalano, Vincenzo Li Muli, Walter Eddie Cosina, Claudio Traina."
"Thirty-four years after the massacre," the President continued, "our feelings of solidarity and closeness to the families of all those—men and women of the police force, the judiciary, and institutions—who defended our community from the mafia cancer remain intact. Borsellino and Falcone are symbols of the country's civic recovery. With their professionalism and courage, they conducted trials that previously could not be held. With their commitment to institutions, they gave the State new and more advanced tools in the fight against the mafia. With their passion, they sowed a culture of legality, teaching young people that the mafia's logic must be opposed, starting from everyday behavior and at school. Their commitment," Mattarella concluded, "is part of the democratic conscience of the Republic."
(Unioneonline)
