Via D'Amelio bombing
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The Via D'Amelio bombing (in Italian: Strage di via D'Amelio) was an attack, which took place in Palermo, Sicily, Italy, on 19 July 1992. It killed Paolo Borsellino, the anti-Mafia Italian magistrate, and five members of his police escort: Agostino Catalano, Emanuela Loi (the first Italian female member of a police escort and the first to be killed on duty), Vincenzo Li Muli, Walter Eddie Cosina, and Claudio Traina.
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[edit]- Falcone and Borsellino? There is the hand of Gladio and the CIA behind that.
- Ferdinando Imposimato, quoted in Da Moro a Falcone, da Bilderberg ad Andreotti, dal Kgb alla Cia. Le verità di Imposimato sulle stragi, Affaritaliani.it, 31 May 2013.
- I sempre più stanchi e retorici rituali delle commemorazioni ufficiali che si susseguono di anno in anno, anziché aiutare a fare memoria, alimentano l'effetto-melassa. Puntando tutto sull'agiografia dell'eroico giudice antimafia e nulla su quei particolari dei suoi ultimi giorni di vita che, presi uno per uno, non dicono nulla. Ma che composti nel mosaico cronologico aiutano a capire molto, se non tutto. E cioè la natura politico-terroristica della strage di via D'Amelio, con le peculiarità che la distinguono da quella di Capaci a dispetto della ravvicinata consecutio temporum, e la proiettano piuttosto su quello che accadrà molti mesi dopo: le bombe della primavera-estate del 1993 a Milano, Firenze e Roma e poi la «pax mafiosa» iniziata con il mancato (anzi, revocato) attentato allo stadio Olimpico della capitale, coincisa con la discesa in campo politico di Silvio Berlusconi e Marcello Dell'Utri, e proseguita fino ad oggi
- The increasingly tired and rhetorical rituals of the official commemorations that follow one another year after year, rather than helping to preserve memory, fuel the "molasses effect." Focusing entirely on the hagiography of the heroic anti-Mafia judge and nothing on those details of his final days that, taken one by one, say nothing. But when pieced together in the chronological mosaic, they help us understand much, if not everything. Namely, the political-terrorist nature of the Via D’Amelio massacre, with the peculiarities that distinguish it from that of Capaci despite the close consecutio temporum, and project it rather onto what would happen many months later: the bombings of spring-summer 1993 in Milan, Florence, and Rome, and then the "mafia truce" that began with the failed (or rather, called-off) attack at the Olympic Stadium in the capital, coinciding with the political entry of Silvio Berlusconi and Marcello Dell'Utri, and continuing to this day.
- Marco Travaglio, from the foreword to Giuseppe Lo Bianco and Sandra Rizza, L'agenda rossa di Paolo Borsellino, Chiarelettere, p. 12. ISBN 886190145X.
- I apologize to the victims’ families and to those who have been wronged. I have tried so many times to tell the truth. I have said that the ones who forced me to lie were La Barbera, Bo, Giampiero Valenti, and Mimmo Militello, and I am sorry because every time I am judged as the perpetrator. [...] I have always said that I know nothing about the massacre and that I was coerced into making those statements. Until my last breath, I will try to defend myself to dispel any doubt about the monstrosity they have pinned on me. [...] They have destroyed my life; I haven’t lived for 22 years, I am locked up in isolation, and I pray to God that the truth will come out. I was beaten in front of my children, and my wife even had a gun pointed at her.
- Vincenzo Scarantino, quoted in Processo Borsellino quater, udienza del 1° Aprile '14, antimafiaduemila.com.
- I didn’t even know where Via D’Amelio was. I spoke only out of fear: they tortured me, beat me, starved me. [...] To keep me from eating, they’d put flies in my pasta. Once in Pianosa I heard two guards talking... a guy with a mustache, a Sicilian sergeant, was saying to the other: “Piscia, piscia.” Once that sergeant even raised his hands against me. Another time, after I went to the dentist, they made me believe I had AIDS, when it was just a simple case of hepatitis.
- Vincenzo Scarantino, quoted in Attilio Bolzoni and Salvo Palazzolo, Via D'Amelio, Scarantino: "Mi costrinsero a confessare con minacce e promesse", ilfattoquotidiano.it, 30 October 2011.
