(ANSA) – ANCONA, MAY 23 – “Today is the day of the Capaci massacre but also the day of the ‘leopards’, powerful and important people who, when Falcone was alive, laughed at him, slandered and defamed him and then went up on the benches to commemorate Falcone because unfortunately the dead cannot speak, they cannot defend themselves “. Thus the prosecutor of Catanzaro Nicola Gratteri, who will be awarded an honorary doctorate in Marketing and law by Univpm and the honorary citizenship of Ancona by the Municipality, on the occasion of the Day of Legality, speaking to the students of the Polytechnic University of Marche and over 800 video-linked guys.
“But – added Gratteri – it is up to us alive to defend the memory and honor of the dead. It is unbearable, I was an eyewitness, I saw them go up on stage after me and commemorate Falcone and Borsellino, and they laughed in life”. “I would like – he said to the students – that you looked at these anti-mafia demonstrations and these commemorations with a critical eye, they are especially useful for those who have to wash their conscience for not doing what they could and should have done. We are alive, if we believe we are honest, we must have courage, at the cost of displeasing the operator, at the cost of displeasing the power, of criticizing “. “Never as in this case – he said – silence is complicity: it is not enough to be honest, it is not enough to pay taxes or do one’s job, we must take a stand and, in a democratic way, contest and protest in a systematic way without ifs and without but.
Otherwise we will not go anywhere and we will only do tired commemorative rites “. (ANSA).
Source: Ansa
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