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Era il 23 maggio di quindici anni fa, quando verso le 18.00 i sogni di libertà dei siciliani onesti s’infrangevano contro il muro di violenza issato da una mafia in evidente difficoltà.

Quel giorno moriva, insieme alla moglie Francesca Morvillo ed agli uomini della scorta, Giovanni Falcone, il giudice palermitano del pool antimafia (di Rocco Chinnici) che insieme con l’amico e giudice Paolo Borsellino (che morirà 57 giorni dopo) aveva fatto tremare “cosa nostra”.

Il ricordo che conservo di quei giorni è quello di un bambino di 7 anni, eppure a differenza di altri avvenimenti, che pure segnarono la storia del nostro paese, il mio is a memory still sharp.

What happened to Falcone, and that also happened to a few months after Borsellino, is still, years later, a place of honor in my memory.

I remember especially the reaction of people, places filled with men and women shouting against the Mafia cowards, remember that the politicians on TV solemn words pronounced by invoking a hard line against the Mafia and the Mafia, I remember a social and political activism than ever since I can remember, was so bustling.

the streets of towns and cities in those days, anything goes, demonstrations, torchlight processions, and especially anger, the anger of those in Sicily (and Italians in general) at that period seemed to have declared war on the Mafia.

Today all seems forgotten, many young people of my generation can no longer recall the battles for the rule of law. The sacrifice of Falcone and Borsellino, who had the dream of freedom to a people enslaved, it seems to have dissolved into nothingness.

I sometimes wonder if all that is left is really a tree in via Notarbartolo and two plaques on the A29.

Even the institutions that should be the first to commemorate their dead, they seem to remember. In particular, the highest office in our region, the President Salvatore Cuffaro, last year chose, in the company of Mr Belt (suspected to be a close friend of Brusca), support the campaign of a candidate for mayor of Partinico, rather than participate in the demonstration against the Mafia in memory of Falcone and Borsellino.

be clear that most of my criticism is an invitation to the coherence, moreover, what is the point spread slogans such as "the mafia sucks" if not then it is a fitting tribute to those who were the principal architects of the struggle the mafia.

conclude with a wish for this beautiful and wretched, in the hope that we can always indignation at the cowardice and savagery with which the mafia killed our champions, Boris Giuliano Rocco Chinnici until John Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, to remember their courage and their ideas, and finally, looking ahead, building a future in the law.