(ANSA) – TRIESTE, MARCH 14 – The flag covering the large cube in the square in front of the Miela Theater was raised in front of the local authorities and the many students who came with the schools. Under the flag there is, a little compacted, what remains of Giovanni Falcone’s escort car, which preceded that of the magistrate along the highway and blew up when the TNT placed by the mafia in a drainage channel exploded. under the road surface. It was May 23, 1992, the 500 kilograms of explosives were detonated by the mafioso Giovanni Brusca.
The car, code-named Quarto Savona Quindici, will remain on display for three days, the time in which the review of civil commitment in favor of the fight against the mafia, Perquod, will take place, in which meetings with writers and journalists of the sector will be held.
Unrecognizable today, the car was an armored Croma in which agents Antonio Montinaro, Vito Schifani and Rocco Dicillo were traveling; hit by the explosion more than Falcone’s car, it was found in the late afternoon, destroyed, in an olive grove hundreds of meters away from the site of the attack.
The prefect of Trieste, Annunziato Vardé, warned that “we must keep our guard up” against the mafia.
The president of the Miela Theater, the journalist Enzo D’Antona, reiterated what he said in recent days, namely that the car is “a perennial warning not to forget the Capaci massacre and all the innocent victims of the mafia”. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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