«This silver lighter tells about my relationship with Judge Falcone. He handed it to me when he decided to quit smoking, he told me to keep it in custody and to return it to him once he decided to start smoking again, but unfortunately I didn't have time, the Capaci massacre canceled everything. I decided to keep it because it gives me the strength to fight».
Pietro Grasso, the former president of the Senate and of the National Anti-Mafia Directorate who rose to the "chair" of the Mario Paglietti high school in Porto Torres, took that lighter out of his pocket on the occasion of the initiative "Memories and commitment in places of legality and justice ", promoted and curated by the Vittorio Occorsio foundation, as part of the "Justice adopts the school" project, to tell his testimony in the fight against the mafia, his friendship with Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, symbolic victims of the battle against organized crime.
A master class held together with another illustrious former magistrate, Giovanni Salvi, president of the Scientific Committee of the "Vittorio Occorsio" Foundation and former attorney general at the Court of Cassation . "Be you young people, the adults of tomorrow, to fight against illegality with your weapons", underlined the two presidents. Not only an insight into the theme of justice but a real lesson on their life and professional experience , when they were still wearing the toga, a story on the criminal facts that particularly marked Italy in the 80s, lessons addressed to the many students who this morning they filled the high school auditorium, together with teachers and representatives of civil and military institutions.
The mayor of Porto Torres, Massimo Mulas, the director of the Asinara National Park, Vittorio Gazale and the head teacher Daniele Taras, who were present at the table moderated by the teacher Flavio Piras, brought institutional greetings. During the morning also greetings from the prefect of Sassari, Paola Dessì. The regional coordinator of the Occorsio foundation, Ursula Ruiu, was present at the meeting.
