(ANSA) – MILAN, NOV 24 – Twelve years after her death, the city of Milan remembers Lea Garofalo, the witness to justice kidnapped and killed by her former partner and the ‘Ndrangheta after she had chosen to leave her family and collaborate with magistrates. His body was dissolved in acid in a piece of land in San Fruttuoso, near Monza.
The Milanese coordination of Libera, together with the Municipality of Milan and the Presidium of Libera “Lea Garofalo” organized a torchlight procession in her memory from the Arco della Pace to viale Montello, in the garden in front of the house where Lea Garofalo lived, a space a time degraded and today recovered to social life and dedicated to his memory.
“Milan, the city that Lea chose fleeing from Calabria, has the duty to remember who has been victimized twice: of the mafia and violence against women – underlined the councilor for Civic and General Services of the Municipality of Milan, Gaia Romani -. Twelve years later, her legacy continues to be a warning to the institutions and an example for many women who find the strength to rebel and free themselves from mafia oppression. Twelve years later, her smile is more alive than ever. in that of his daughter Denise, to whom our affection goes, and above all in our commitment against all forms of organized crime and in defense of legality “. (HANDLE).
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