New museum in Palermo dedicated to the present: tribute to Falcone, Borsellino, and other mafia victims
The first museum in Europe dedicated to the present remembers Giovanni Falcone, Paolo Borsellino, and all the other victims of the mafia. It is located in the space of Palazzo Jung in Palermo and will be open to conferences, seminars, and above all, will welcome students and all young people.
Today (April 16) the Blue Library was inaugurated in preview, located in the large room, dedicated to the free use and responsible loan of volumes of history, economy, visual arts, literature, poetry, and biographies on the twentieth century and current times. Many institutions were present, including the president of the parliamentary anti-mafia Commission, Chiara Colosimo: “The museum was born following the protocol with the Falcone Foundation – explains Colosimo -. I was elected on May 23 and for me this is a fundamental step. It is especially because the approach we have given to the parliamentary anti-mafia commission is to speak to the youngest because what happened here does not happen again.”
Colosimo recalls the years of the ’92 massacres: “I was a child and I watched the images on the news – she says -. All my political activity then wanted to emphasize that story. It is no coincidence that the parliamentary anti-mafia Commission immediately dealt with the famous 57 days that divide the massacre of Capaci from that of Via D’Amelio. Unfortunately, organized crime, and specifically cosa nostra, has not yet found its end even though we have inflicted very hard blows, most recently the arrest of Messina Denaro. My fear is that this civil revolt, starting especially from Palermo, may weaken and leave room for new forms of mafia. Among these is that of vote-buying which I believe is a plague to be eradicated, especially because it deprives citizens of the opportunity to trust their own electoral political class.”
Then a warning: “It is not said that the person we have always had by our side and in whom we have trusted cannot take a wrong path and cannot lose that challenge with power that leads her to accept immoral and absolutely illegal compromises. Faced with this, we must have the ability to say, even if it is our best friend, if she is making deals with organized crime, which is our worst enemy.”
Maria Falcone points to the sign posted inside the library: “Here we make the future.” “This is the place of memory – says the sister of Giovanni Falcone – so as not to forget those terrible massacres of ’92 but above all the work that has been done to fight it. All this will be told to young people from all over Italy. As Giovanni said: “The mafia is a cultural fact and as such it must be fought, beyond repression.”
Nasce a Palermo un museo dedicato al presente: omaggio a Falcone, Borsellino e alle altre vittime di mafia
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