(ANSA) – PALERMO, APRIL 30 – Enrico Letta kneels in front of the plaque commemorating Pio La Torre and Rosario Di Salvo.
This is how, in the place of the ambush of 40 years ago, the secretary of the Democratic Party expresses his emotion by recalling the concept that La Torre had of politics: “An instrument of redemption for the weakest not an opportunity for the settlement of interests of the strongest “. In this journey Letta rediscovers the very origins of the PCI secretary killed by Cosa Nostra on 30 April 1982. The son of peasants, he had managed “with a policy made up of sacrifices” to achieve fundamental results in the fight against the Mafia by changing the rules, codifying the crime of mafia association and introducing the confiscation of mafia assets into the penal system.
“With his battles – adds Letta – he changed the history of our country. They killed him but he won. His killing turned out to be a fatal boomerang for the mafia. The rules he proposed made it more effective. action against the Mafia powers “.
Letta also recalls La Torre’s last battle for peace, a theme that “brings us back to the present moment”. And he announces that in September Palermo will host the Festa dell’Unità. It will be named after La Torre, he says embracing his son Franco who today in Palermo presents his book on the betrayed anti-mafia.
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Source: Ansa
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