Meloni recollects Falcone and Borsellino: "Two martyrs"

“Wednesday is the July nineteenth, in Italy it is one symbolic date“, remembers the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, in her speech at the plenary consultation of the EU-Celac summit. “On July 19, 31 years ago, the mafia killed the judge Paolo Borsellino which collectively with the choose John Falcone had filed the biggest trial in opposition to the Mafia ever in Italy”.

Falcone and Borsellino two martyrs

“They have been two martyrs from the combat towards the mafia – explains Meloni – and they may be additionally two of the primary players to whom we owe a good deal of what we realize in the fight towards organized crime, they have been those who taught us how essential it become to combat the mafia, fight prepared crime, even running outside the very own country wide borders, with crook groups that have been more and more powerful and that not involved most effective our societies”.

“It is the purpose why 23 years ago the United Nations, proper in Palermo inside the metropolis of Falcone and Borsellino, started out what we understand as the United Nations conference towards transnational prepared crime – added the most excellent – and I accept as true with that this is every other fundamental detail of our cooperation, some thing on which we are able to retain to work together because Italy is diagnosed as one of the international locations that have the best understanding, but we've obtained the fine effects on this cooperation with our companions of Latin America”.

Wednesday Meloni in Palermo

Giorgia Meloni may be in Palermo on Wednesday to commemorate the sufferers of the Via D’Amelio bloodbath. At 8.45 will lay a laurel wreath to the plaque in reminiscence of the fallen inside the Stock Office of the “Lungaro” barracks, in the presence of the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantesodi and the Chief of Police Vittorio Pisani.

Then he'll go to the cemetery of Santa Maria di Gesù and to the church of San Domenico, in which the judges Paolo Borsellino and Giovanni Falcone are buried respectively.

At 10, he will preside over the Committee for public order and protection in the prefecture, assembly, among others, the prefect Maria Teresa Cucinotta and the prosecutor Maurizio De Lucia, within the signal of assessment to the mafia. No participation in the conventional torchlight procession, scheduled for the evening.