Borsellino, Meloni: "My commitment began with the massacre of via d'Amelio"

"I began my political commitment the day after the Via D'Amelio massacre. 33 years have passed. I still have an extremely clear image of that day, of that moment in the heat of my mother's living room, of the images on the news, of that devastation and that sudden sense of urgency, of that feeling that there was no point in feeling anger if you couldn't also transform that anger into something, into a gesture, into a commitment, into a mobilization".

From the mafia massacres "a popular movement started that for the first time visibly said no to the violence, blackmail, and silence to which the mafia wanted to condemn Italy. The reaction was a great underestimation of Cosa Nostra: millions of Italians preferred commitment to indifference, duty to cowardice, they chose honor and the nation against the false honor of those who proclaim themselves men of honor. It was the spark of a fire of hope and love for Italy, its witness is still strong". This was said by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, at the ceremony for the inauguration of the case containing Paolo Borsellino's bag in the Chamber